Extreme Value Theory: An Introduction

Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-413

  de Haan, Laurens ^a   Ferreira, Ana ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

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