A software review for extreme value analysis

Extremes

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 103-119

  Gilleland, Eric ^a   Ribatet, Mathieu ^b   Stephenson, Alec G ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extreme value theory; Software development; Spatial extremes; Statistical computing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874193532     PISSN: 13861999     EISSN: 1572915X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10687-012-0155-0     Document Type: Review

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