Extreme Value Distributions
Subtitle: Theory and Applications
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company; Imperial College Press; Distributed by World Scientific
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781860942242
Subjects: Applied mathematics; Probability & statistics; Probability & Statistics - General; Mathematical Statistics; Probabilities; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Applied; Extreme value theory
First sentence: Probabilistic extreme value theory is a curious and fascinating blend of an enormous variety of applications involving natural phenomena such as rainfall, floods, wind gusts, air pollution, and corrosion, and delicate advanced mathematical results on point processes and regularly varying functions.