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Brett Kim
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I am struggling to fully pin down the concept behind the Generalized Pareto Distribution that is being used in Question 2 ii of the September 2020 exam.
My immediate answer to this question was to calculate 1 - G(70) ?= 1 - P(X <=70) = P(X > 70)
But the marking scheme says it is incorrect to use G(70). Why is this? And what is G(70) = 1 - (1 + (70/45))^-3 = 0.9400838 actually telling us then if it is not P(X <= 70)?
I get this probably related to where it says "it is easy to make the mistake of calculating a probability for the threshold exceedance instead of for the underlying distance." But I don't understand what the difference is between "threshold exceedance" and "underlying distance".
My immediate answer to this question was to calculate 1 - G(70) ?= 1 - P(X <=70) = P(X > 70)
But the marking scheme says it is incorrect to use G(70). Why is this? And what is G(70) = 1 - (1 + (70/45))^-3 = 0.9400838 actually telling us then if it is not P(X <= 70)?
I get this probably related to where it says "it is easy to make the mistake of calculating a probability for the threshold exceedance instead of for the underlying distance." But I don't understand what the difference is between "threshold exceedance" and "underlying distance".