The distribution of maxima of approximately Gaussian random fields

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1375-1403

  Nardi, Yuval ^a   Siegmund, David O ^b,c   Yakir, Benjamin ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Asymptotically Gaussian; Extreme values; Random fields

Indexed keywords

EID: 51049112668     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-AOS511     Document Type: Article

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