 An expectile computation cookbookAbdelaati Daouia, Gilles Stupfler and Antoine Usseglio-Carleve No 23-1458, TSE Working Papers from Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) Abstract: A substantial body of work in the last 15 years has shown that expectiles constitute an excellent candidate for becoming a standard tool in probabilistic and statistical modeling. Surprisingly, the question of how expectiles may be efficiently calculated has been left largely untouched. We fill this gap by, first, providing a general outlook on the computation of expectiles that relies on the knowledge of analytic expressions of the underlying distribution function and mean residual life function. We distinguish between discrete distributions, for which an exact calculation is always feasible, and continuous distributions, where a Newton-Raphson approximation algorithm can be implemented and a list of exceptional distributions whose expectiles are in analytic form can be given. When the distribution function and/or the mean residual life is difficult to compute, Monte-Carlo algorithms are introduced, based on an exact calcu- lation of sample expectiles and on the use of control variates to improve computational efficiency. We discuss the relevance of our findings to statistical practice and provide numerical evidence of the performance of the considered methods. Keywords: Control variates; Exact computation; Expectiles; Monte-Carlo sampling; Newton-Raphson method; Quadratic convergence (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tse:wpaper:128323 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in TSE Working Papers from Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) Contact information at EDIRC. |
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