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A common approach to modelling extreme values is to consider the excesses above a high threshold as realisations of a non-homogeneous Poisson process. While this method offers the advantage of modelling using threshold-invariant extreme value parameters, the dependence between these parameters makes estimation more difficult. We present a novel approach for Bayesian estimation of the Poisson process model parameters by reparameterising in terms of a tuning parameter m. This paper presents a method for choosing the optimal value of m that near-orthogonalises the parameters, which is achieved by minimising the correlation between the asymptotic posterior distribution of the parameters. This choice of m ensures more rapid convergence and efficient sampling from the joint posterior distribution using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods. Samples from the parameterisation of interest are then obtained by a simple transform. Results are presented in the cases of identically and non-identically distributed models for extreme rainfall in Cumbria, UK.
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Sharkey, P., Tawn, J.A. A Poisson process reparameterisation for Bayesian inference for extremes. Extremes 20, 239–263 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10687-016-0280-2
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