Anticipating catastrophes through extreme value modelling

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 405-416

  Coles, Stuart ^a   Pericchi, Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Extreme value theory; Non stationarity; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142219342     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00413     Document Type: Article

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