Kurtosis modelling by means of the J-transformation
Tóm tắt
The H–family of distributions or H–distributions, introduced by Tukey (1960; 1977), are
generated by a single transformation of the standard normal distribution and allow for leptokurtosis
represented by the parameter h. Alternatively, Haynes et al. (1997) generated leptokurtic distributions
by applying the K–transformation to the normal distribution. In this study we propose a third transformation,
the so–called J–transformation, and derive some properties of this transformation. Moreover,
so-called elongation generating functions (EGFs) are introduced. By means of EGFs we are able to
visualize the strength of tail elongation and to construct new transformations. Finally, we compare the
three transformations towards their goodness–of–fit in the context of financial return data.