
Laws of Small Numbers: Extremes and Rare Events
Extremes and Rare Events
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
2nd Edition
Published on 5. October 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 376 pages
978-3-7643-2416-2 (ISBN)
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Description
Since the publication of the first edition of this seminar book, the theory and applications of extremes and rare events have seen increasing interest. Laws of Small Numbers gives a mathematically oriented development of the theory of rare events underlying various applications. The new edition incorporates numerous new results on about 130 additional pages. Part II, added in the second edition, discusses recent developments in multivariate extreme value theory.
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Edition
2., nd ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Basel
Switzerland
Target group
College/higher education
Research
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
1
Dimensions
Height: 156 mm
Width: 234 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
1220 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-2416-2 (9783764324162)
DOI
10.1007/b93655
Schweitzer Classification
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Michael Falk | Jürg Hüsler | Rolf-Dieter Reiss
Laws of Small Numbers: Extremes and Rare Events
Book
10/2010
3rd Edition
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Michael Falk | Jürg Hüsler | Rolf-Dieter Reiss
Laws of Small Numbers: Extremes and Rare Events
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11/2013
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Content
Functional Laws of Small Numbers.- ExtremeValueTheory.- Estimation of Conditional Curves.- Basic Theory of Multivariate Maxima.- Multivariate Extremes: The Pickands Approach.- The Pickands Approach in the Bivariate Case.- Multivariate Extremes: Supplementary Concepts and Results.- Introduction to the Non IID Case.- Extremes of Random Sequences.- Extremes of Gaussian Processes.- Extensions for Rare Events.- Statistics of Extremes.