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For stationary sequences, under general dependence restrictions, any limiting point process for time normalized upcrossings of high levels is a compound Poisson process, i.e., there is a clustering of high upcrossings, where the underlying Poisson points represent cluster positions and the multiplicities correspond to cluster sizes. For such classes of stationary sequences, there exists the upcrossings index η, 0≤η≤1, which is directly related to the extremal index θ, 0≤θ≤1, for suitable high levels. In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the upcrossings index η for a class of stationary sequences satisfying a mild oscillation restriction. For the proposed estimator, properties such as consistency and asymptotic normality are studied. Finally, the performance of the estimator is assessed through simulation studies for autoregressive processes and case studies in the fields of environment and finance. Comparisons with other estimators derived from well known estimators of the extremal index are also presented.
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We are grateful to the anonymous referees for their valuable criticisms, corrections and suggestions which helped considerably the final form of this paper.
We acknowledge the support from research unit “Centro de Matemática” of the University of Beira Interior, the research project PTDC/MAT/108575/2008 through the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) co-financed by FEDER/COMPETE and SFRH/BD/41439/2007.
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Sebastião, J.R., Martins, A.P., Ferreira, H. et al. Estimating the upcrossings index. TEST 22, 549–579 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-013-0315-9
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