Tertius de Wet
Stellenbosch University
Tertius de Wet is currently Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is also an Extraordinary Professor at North West University, from which he obtained his doctorate. He has published widely in statistics with his research currently focussed on extreme value theory.
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Articles by Tertius de Wet
A multiplier approach for nonparametric estimation of the extreme quantiles of compound frequency distributions
The authors propose a nonparametric method for estimating extreme quantiles of operational risk reserves by utilizing a lower quantile of the severity distribution.
A simulation comparison of quantile approximation techniques for compound distributions popular in operational risk
The objective of this paper is to compare numerical approximation techniques in terms of their practical usefulness and potential applicability in an operational risk context.