On spatial extremes: With application to a rainfall problem

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 624-642

  Buishand, T A ^a   de Haan, L ^a   Zhou, C ^a  

^a TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Areal reduction factor; Max stable process; Spatial extremes

Indexed keywords

EID: 67449110829     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOAS159     Document Type: Article

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