generalised pareto.

Discussion in 'CT6' started by saksham, Jul 16, 2017.

  1. saksham

    saksham Member

    For a generalised pareto cdf does not exist in closed form. What is the meaning of this closed form over here?
     
  2. Bharti Singla

    Bharti Singla Senior Member

    I guess closed form here means that we don't have a 'well defined expression' for CDF of Generalised Pareto as we have for two parameter pareto version. In other words, its cdf doesn't exist and we can't simply put values of x and get the result! We have to look at table values or use some computer package for it.
     
  3. John Lee

    John Lee ActEd Tutor Staff Member

    That's correct. It means there's no nice formula - so you have to work it out numerically.
     

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