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Table 3 Results from fitting the GPD model

From: Extreme value modelling of Ghana stock exchange index

Estimate

MLE

PWM

Right tail

Left tail

Right tail

Left tail

\( u = 0.8 \)

\( u = 0.15 \)

\( u = 0.8 \)

\( u = 0.15 \)

Shape parameter \( (\hat{\xi }) \)

0.6339

0.4455

0.6147

0.43

Conf. interval (lower, upper)

(0.3968, 0.8702)

(0.2777, 0.6133)

(0.2871, 0.7994)

(0.2647, 0.6021)

Std. error

0.12097

0.0856

0.12064

Scale parameter \( (\hat{\sigma }) \)

0.4142

0.4329

0.4153

0.4348

Conf. interval (lower, upper)

(0.3048, 0.5237)

(0.3482, 0.5177)

(0.3139, 0.5622)

(0.3492, 0.5201)

Std. error

0.05584

0.04323

0.1306

0.04863