Estimating L-Functionals for Heavy-Tailed Distributions and Application

Abstract EN

L-functionals summarize numerous statistical parameters and actuarial risk measures.

Their sample estimators are linear combinations of order statistics (L-statistics).

There exists a class of heavy-tailed distributions for which the asymptotic normality of these estimators cannot be obtained by classical results.

In this paper we propose, by means of extreme value theory, alternative estimators for L-functionals and establish their asymptotic normality.

Our results may be applied to estimate the trimmed L-moments and financial risk measures for heavy-tailed distributions.