gbhill - Hill Maximum Likelihhod estimation
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Copyright
Copyright © 2001-2018 Giulio Bottazzi This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2) as published by the Free Software
Foundation;
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
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gbhill 6.3 March 2022 GBHILL(1)
Description
Maximum Likelihood estimation of distribution based on extremal (tail) observations. The distributions
included are: exponential, pareto1, pareto3, gaussian. Provide the name of the distribution and the
initial values of the parameters in the command line.
Examples
gbhill pareto1 1 1 < file.dat
estimate the Pareto type 1 distribution, initial values are gamma=1 and b=1
gbhill -u .2 pareto1 1 1 < file.dat
the same using only top 20% observations
Name
gbhill - Hill Maximum Likelihhod estimation
Options
-O type of output (default 0)
0 parameters and min NLL
1 parameters and errors
2 the distribution function
3 the density function
4 transformed observations: uniform in [0.1] under the null
5 log Renyi residuals: iid uniform in [0.1] under the null
6 Renyi residuals: iid exponential with mean 1 under the null
-M method used (default 0)
0 unconditional, upper tail
1 threshold, upper tail
2 unconditional, lower tail
3 threshold, lower tail
-V variance matrix estimation (default2)
0 < J^{-1} >
1 < H^{-1} >
2 < H^{-1} J H^{-1} >
-v verbosity level (default0)
0 just results
1 comment headers
2 summary statistics
3+ minimization steps
-a print entire set for -O 1,2
-u observations or threshold (default 1)
-F input fields separators (default " \t")
-h this help
-A comma separated MLL optimization options step,tol,iter,eps,msize, algo. Use empty fields for
default (default 0.01,0.01,100,1e-6,1e-6,5)
step initial step size of the searching algorithm
tol line search tolerance iter: maximum number of iterations
eps gradient tolerance : stopping criteria ||gradient||<eps
algo optimization methods: 0 Fletcher-Reeves, 1 Polak-Ribiere, 2 Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno, 3
Steepest descent, 4 simplex, 5 Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno2.
Reporting Bugs
Report bugs to <gbutils@googlegroups.com>
Package home page <http://cafim.sssup.it/~giulio/software/gbutils/index.html>
Synopsis
gbhill [options] <functiondefinition>
