Abstract
The normal distribution is inadequate in capturing skewed and heavy-tailed behaviour of data taken over short time intervals. In addition the data can be leptokurtic. For this reason a normal weighted inverse Gaussian distribution is proposed as an alternative to the normal inverse Gaussian distribution to handle such data. The mixing distribution used in the normal variance mean mixture is a finite mixture of two special cases of Generalized Inverse Gaussian (GIG) distribution. The two special cases and the finite mixture are weighted inverse Gaussian distribution. The motivation for this work is that a finite mixture is more flexible than a single/standard distribution. The EM-algorithm has been used for parameter estimation.
Pour traiter des données présentant une asymétrie, une queue lourde et un caractère leptokurtique, nous proposons un modèle de mélange en variance où la variable de mélange est elle-même un mélange pondéré de deux loi normales inverses. L'algorithme EM est utilisé pour l'estimation. Le modèle a été étudié et simulé avec succès.
Citation
Calvin Maina. Patrick Guge Weke. Carolyne Adhiambo Ogutu. Joseph Makoteku Ottieno. "Modelling Skewed And Heavy-tailed Data Using A Normal Weighted Inverse Gaussian Distribution." Afr. Stat. 17 (1) 3165 - 3187, January 2022. https://doi.org/10.16929/as/2022.3165.300
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