Inference for a Hidden Truncated (Both-Sided) Bivariate Pareto (II) Distribution

Indranil Ghosh and Saralees Nadarajah

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2015, vol. 44, issue 10, 2136-2150

Abstract: The Pareto distribution is a simple model for non negative data with a power law probability tail. Income and wealth data are typically modeled using some variant of the classical Pareto distribution. In practice, it is frequently likely that the observed data have been truncated with respect to some unobserved covariable. In this paper, a hidden truncation formulation of this scenario is proposed and analyzed. A bivariate Pareto (II) distribution is assumed for the variable of interest and the unobserved covariable. Distributional properties of the resulting model are investigated. A variety of parameter estimation strategies (under the classical set up) are investigated.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2013.773349

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