Review of testing issues in extremes: In honor of Professor Laurens de Haan

Extremes

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 99-111

  Hüsler, Jürg ^a   Peng, Liang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain of attraction; Extreme value distribution; Extremes; Goodness of fit test

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849145281     PISSN: 13861999     EISSN: 1572915X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10687-007-0052-0     Document Type: Review

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