Research Article

POT-Based Estimation of the Renewal Function of Interoccurrence Times of Heavy-Tailed Risks

Table 2

Semiparametric and nonparametric estimates of the renewal function of interoccurence times of Pareto-distributed claims with shape parameter 2/3. Simulations are repeated 200 times for different sample sizes.

True value R=2.222
Sample sizeSemiparametric R̂Nonparametric R̃
Mean Bias RMSE Mean Bias RMSE

10002.2650.0420.1852.4160.1930.229
20002.2470.0240.1572.054-0.1670.223
50002.2230.0010.1292.073-0.1490.192