extRemes (version 2.0-12)

xbooter: Additional Bootstrap Functions for Univariate EVA

Description

Additonal bootstrap capabilities for extreme-value analysis for fevd objects.

Usage

xbooter(x, B, rsize, block.length = 1,
	return.period = c(10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500),
	qcov = NULL, qcov.base = NULL, shuffle = NULL,
	replace = TRUE, verbose = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x

list object of class “fevd”

B, rsize, block.length, shuffle, replace

See the help file for booter from the distillery package.

return.period

numeric value for the desired return period for which CIs are desired.

qcov

numeric matrix with rows the same length as q and columns equal to the number of parameters (+ 1 for the threshold, if a POT model). This gives any covariate values for a nonstationary model. If NULL, and model is non-stationary, only the intercept terms for modeled parameters are used, and if a non-constant threshold, only the first threshold value is used. Not used if model is stationary.

qcov.base

numeric matrix analogous to qcov. When provided, the function returns the difference in return levels between the level for the covariates in qcov and the level for covariates in qcov.base.

verbose

logical if TRUE progress information is printed to the screen.

…

Additonal optional arguments to the booter function.

Value

Object of class “booted” is returned. See the help file for booter for more information.

Details

The ci method function will perform parametric bootstrapping for “fevd” objects, but this function is a wrapper to booter, which allows for greater flexibility with “fevd” objects. Gives CIs for the EVD parameters and return levels.

See Also

fevd, booter, xtibber, ci.fevd

Examples

# NOT RUN {
set.seed( 409 )
z <- apply( matrix( rnorm( 100 * 1000 ), 1000, 100 ), 2, max )
fit <- fevd( z )

# In order to keep the code fast for CRAN compiling, 
# a low value for B is used here, but should use a larger
# value in general.
bfit <- xbooter( fit, B = 50, verbose = TRUE )
ci( bfit, type = "perc" )
# }