Empirical Bayes estimation for the conditional extreme value model

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Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 391-406

  Cheng, Linyin ^a   Gilleland, Eric ^b   Heaton, Matthew J ^c   Aghakouchak, Amir ^a  

^a University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivariate extremes; Conditional extreme value model; Empirical Bayes estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937761185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20491573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sta4.71     Document Type: Article

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