Accounting for choice of measurement scale in extreme value modeling

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1558-1578

  Wadsworth, J L ^a   Tawn, J A ^a   Jonathan, P ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Shell Thornton Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Box Cox transformation; Extreme value theory; Reparameterization; Significant wave height

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952039802     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/10-AOAS333     Document Type: Article

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