Laws of small numbers: Extremes and rare events

Laws of Small Numbers: Extremes and Rare Events

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-509

  Falk, Michael ^a   Hüsler, Jürg ^b   Reiss, Rolf Dieter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-0009-9     Document Type: Book

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