Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models
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ABSTRACT In the study of heavy tail data, several models have been introduced. If the interest is in the tail of the distribution, block maxima or excess over thresholds are the typical approaches, wasting relevant information in the bulk of the data. To avoid this, mixture models for the body (below the threshold) and the tail (above the threshold) are proposed. In this paper, we exploit the richness of nonparametric mixture models to model heavy tail data. We specifically consider mixtures of shifted gamma‐gamma distributions with four parameters and a Poisson‐Dirichlet process as a mixing distribution. One of these parameters is associated with the tail. By studying the posterior distribution of the tail parameter, we are able to assess the tail heaviness for each component. We develop an efficient MCMC method with adapting Metropolis‐Hastings steps to obtain posterior inference and illustrate with simulated and real datasets.
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@article{NietoBarajas2026Modeling,
title = {Modeling Heavy Tail Data With Bayesian Nonparametric Mixtures},
author = {Luis E. Nieto‐Barajas},
journal = {Statistical Analysis and Data Mining The ASA Data Science Journal},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1002/sam.70104},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1002/sam.70104}
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