Congruence between own values and those of one’s reference groups has been found to promote life satisfaction. Actual or anticipated support or sanctions from reference others presumably explains this effect. Does the effect extend to congruence with the values of others who are similar only...

In this work we propose a semiparametric likelihood procedure for the threshold selection for extreme values. This is achieved under a semiparametric model, which assumes there is a threshold above which the excess distribution belongs to the generalized Pareto family. The motivation of our...