Statistics of extremes, with applications in environment, insurance, and finance

Extreme Values in Finance, Telecommunications, and the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1-78

  Smith, Richard L ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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