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A Kernel Approach to Multivariate Generalized Gammas Convolutions
Abstract
We propose a kernel-based estimation framework for Multivariate Generalized Gamma convolutions (MGGC), a class of probability distributions on R d + . MGGC are useful for risk modeling e.g. Their densities are in general not explicit. The construction relies on a new Stein operator for the MGGC class, derived from a partial differential equation satisfied by the characteristic function and expressed as an integral against the underlying Thorin measure. This leads to construct a new kernel and an estimation procedure in the derived reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS); with consistency results. Numerical experiments illustrate the practical behaviour of the proposed estimator.
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BibTeX
@misc{gonin2026kernel,
title = {{A Kernel Approach to Multivariate Generalized Gammas Convolutions}},
author = {Léo Gonin and Esterina Masiello and Véronique Maume-Deschamps},
howpublished = {HAL},
year = {2026},
month = jul,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.24681},
eprint = {2609.24681},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://hal.science/hal-05702801v1},
note = {CC BY-NC-ND 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - A Kernel Approach to Multivariate Generalized Gammas Convolutions
AU - Léo Gonin
AU - Esterina Masiello
AU - Véronique Maume-Deschamps
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/07/23
PB - HAL
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.24681
UR - https://hal.science/hal-05702801v1
AB - We propose a kernel-based estimation framework for Multivariate Generalized Gamma convolutions (MGGC), a class of probability distributions on R d + . MGGC are useful for risk modeling e.g. Their densities are in general not explicit. The construction relies on a new Stein operator for the MGGC class, derived from a partial differential equation satisfied by the characteristic function and expressed as an integral against the underlying Thorin measure. This leads to construct a new kernel and an estimation procedure in the derived reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS); with consistency results. Numerical experiments illustrate the practical behaviour of the proposed estimator.
ER -