In this thesis we propose a risk management methodology to high-dimensional financial portfolios. Instead of estimating the joint density of the portfolios in a high-dimensional space, we are encouraged by using the independent component analysis (ICA) to decompose the dependent risk factors to...

The Kies probability model was proposed as an alternative to the extended Weibull models as it provides a more efficient fit to some real-life data sets in comparison to the aforementioned models. The paper proposes classical and Bayesian inferences for the Kies distribution based on records....

Machine generated contents note: 1 Classical Statistical Procedures -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Score Vector, the Information Matrix, and the Cramer-Rao -- Lower Bound -- 1.3 Maximum Likelihood Estimators and Test Procedures -- 1.4 Nuisance Parameters -- 1.5 Differentiation and Asymptotics --...