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A Generative High Quantile Homogeneity Test Using Bahadur Representation for Heteroskedastic High Quantile Regression of Tail Dependent Time Series

Fangwei Wu, Jingying Gao, Ting Zhang

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A novel Bahadur representation for high quantiles in tail-dependent heteroskedastic time series underpins a generative test for homogeneous effects of explanatory variables across high quantiles.

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The paper establishes a Bahadur representation result that holds for high quantile regression in a broad class of tail-dependent time series that may exhibit heteroskedasticity. This result is of independent interest because it converts problems about nonlinear high quantile estimators into problems about linear forms while supplying an explicit error bound. The authors then apply the representation to construct a generative high quantile homogeneity test that works whether the null or alternative holds and does not require stationarity of the auxiliary process. Readers should care because many real-world time series, such as financial returns or environmental extremes, show dependence and changing variance precisely in the tails where standard tools break down.

Core claim

We develop a novel Bahadur representation result in the high quantile setting for a general class of tail dependent time series under potential heteroskedasticity, which can be of interest by its own. In particular, the Bahadur representation provides a foundation for reducing problems regarding nonlinear high quantile regression estimators to those regarding suitably constructed linear forms with an explicit error bound and can be transformative and useful in many statistical problems. We apply it to guide the development of a generative high quantile homogeneity test, which is then illustrated through applications to both synthetic and real data.

What carries the argument

A new Bahadur representation for high quantile estimators in heteroskedastic tail-dependent time series that delivers an explicit error bound when approximating with linear forms.

Load-bearing premise

The underlying time series must belong to the general class of tail-dependent processes for which the new Bahadur representation holds with an explicit error bound, even when heteroskedasticity is present.

What would settle it

Finding a tail-dependent time series with heteroskedasticity where the high quantile estimator cannot be approximated by the linear form within the stated error bound, or where the homogeneity test has incorrect size or power in simulated data.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Daily log returns calculated from the NASDAQ composite index value at market close for the period of 2013–2025. series. We model the data as a general tail dependent process, and the generative testing procedure in Section 4.2 yields a 𝑝-value of 0.135 for a comparison between the 1% and 5% tail quantiles. As a result, the largest 1% and 5% losses seem to exhibit similar increasing patterns over time, diff… view at source ↗
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We consider a high quantile homogeneity test to determine whether a certain set of explanatory variables has homogeneous effects on different high quantiles of the response variable in the tail. To accommodate for situations under both the null and the alternative, the auxiliary process in this case may no longer be treated as stationary, and the problem requires a joint analysis of both homoscedastic and heteroskedastic high quantiles. For this, we develop a novel Bahadur representation result in the high quantile setting for a general class of tail dependent time series under potential heteroskedasticity, which can be of interest by its own. In particular, the Bahadur representation provides a foundation for reducing problems regarding nonlinear high quantile regression estimators to those regarding suitably constructed linear forms with an explicit error bound and can be transformative and useful in many statistical problems. We in the current article apply it to guide the development of a generative high quantile homogeneity test, which is then illustrated through applications to both synthetic and real data.

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Summary. The manuscript proposes a high quantile homogeneity test to assess whether explanatory variables have homogeneous effects on different high quantiles of the response variable in the tail. To accommodate non-stationary auxiliary processes under both null and alternative, it develops a novel Bahadur representation for high quantile regression estimators in a general class of tail-dependent time series under heteroskedasticity; this representation supplies an explicit error bound allowing reduction of nonlinear high quantile regression problems to linear forms. The representation is applied to construct a generative homogeneity test, which is illustrated on synthetic and real data.

Significance. If the claimed Bahadur representation and explicit error bound hold for the stated class of processes, the result would be significant by providing a foundation for reducing nonlinear high quantile estimation problems to linear ones with controlled error, potentially useful across multiple statistical applications involving tail dependence and heteroskedasticity. The homogeneity test could offer practical value in tail-risk analysis where non-stationarity must be handled.

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  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The abstract asserts the existence of a novel Bahadur representation with an explicit error bound that reduces nonlinear high quantile regression estimators to linear forms, but supplies no derivation steps, assumptions, or verification. This is load-bearing for the central claim, as the soundness of the reduction and the error bound cannot be assessed without these details.
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  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The term 'generative' in 'generative high quantile homogeneity test' is used without definition or explanation, which may reduce clarity regarding the test's construction and properties.

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We thank the referee for their review and summary of our manuscript. We address the major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The abstract asserts the existence of a novel Bahadur representation with an explicit error bound that reduces nonlinear high quantile regression estimators to linear forms, but supplies no derivation steps, assumptions, or verification. This is load-bearing for the central claim, as the soundness of the reduction and the error bound cannot be assessed without these details.

    Authors: The abstract is a concise overview of the paper's contributions and, by standard convention, does not contain technical derivations, full assumption lists, or proofs. The novel Bahadur representation for heteroskedastic high quantile regression under tail dependence, including the explicit error bound that permits reduction of the nonlinear problem to linear forms, is developed in full in the main text with all required assumptions stated and the result verified. This supplies the foundation for the homogeneity test and addresses the load-bearing aspect of the claim. revision: no

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The abstract claims development of a novel Bahadur representation for high-quantile regression under tail dependence and heteroskedasticity, which then supports a homogeneity test by reducing nonlinear estimators to linear forms with an explicit error bound. No equations, parameter fits, self-citations, or prior results are supplied in the available text, so no load-bearing step can be shown to reduce by construction to the paper's own inputs or to a self-citation chain. The derivation is presented as independent and self-contained.

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