Asymptotic tail behavior of phase-type scale mixture distributions

Rojas-Nandayapa, Leonardo ORCID: 0000-0001-5652-3183 and Xie, Wangyue (2015) Asymptotic tail behavior of phase-type scale mixture distributions. Annals of Actuarial Science, 12 (2). pp. 412-432.

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Abstract

We consider phase-type scale mixture distributions which correspond to distributions of a product of two independent random variables: a phase-type random variable $Y$ and a nonnegative but otherwise arbitrary random variable $S$ called the scaling random variable. We investigate conditions for such a class of distributions to be either light- or heavy-tailed, we explore subexponentiality and determine their maximum domains of attraction. Particular focus is given to phase-type scale mixture distributions where the scaling random variable $S$ has discrete support --- such a class of distributions has been recently used in risk applications to approximate heavy-tailed distributions. Our results are complemented with several examples.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	18 pages, 0 figure
Uncontrolled Keywords:	math.PR, math.PR
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	31 May 2017 09:26
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 07:03
DOI:	10.1017/s1748499517000136
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3007722