Keywords - Function groups - @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Library: finance
See also: pickandsgp dpgp dpgpdiag dpgpgamma mleev0 mlegp hillgp1 momentgp

Quantlet: mlegpdiag
Description: Vector of the maximum likelihood estimator for the Generalized Pareto model.

Usage: r = mlegpdiag (x, k)
Input:
x vector of data
k vector, number of exceedances
Output:
r vector with shape parameters

Example:
library("finance")
x=randx("gp",100,1)
r=mlegpdiag(x,8:100)

Result:
Vector containing the estimated shape parameters for the number of
exceedances provided in k



Author: M. Thomas, 19990503 license MD*Tech
(C) MD*TECH Method and Data Technologies, 05.02.2006