Extreme Value Theory: Proceedings of a Conference held in Oberwolfach, Dec. 6-12, 1987 (Lecture Notes in Statistics, 51, Band 51) - Softcover

Rolf-Dieter Reiss, Jürg Hüsler

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0387969543 ISBN 13: 9780387969541

Verlag: Springer New York, 1989

Inhaltsangabe

The urgent need to describe and to solve certain problems connected to extreme phenomena in various areas of applications has been of decisive influence on the vital development of extreme value theory. After the pioneering work of M. Frechet (1927) and of R.A. Fisher and L.R.C. Tippett (1928), who discovered the limiting distributions of extremes, the importance of mathematical concepts of extreme behavior in applications was impressively demonstrated by statisticians like E.J. Gumbel and W. Weibull. The predominant role of applied aspects in that early period may be highlighted by the fact that two of the "Fisher-Tippett asymptotes" also carry the names of Gumbel and Weibull. In the last years, the complexity of problems and their tractability by mathematical methods stimulated a rapid development of mathematical theory that substantially helped to improve our understanding of extreme behavior. Due to the depth and richness of mathematical ideas, extreme value theory has become more and more of interest for mathematically oriented research workers. This was one of the reasons to organize a conference on extreme value theory which was held at the Mathematische Forschungsinstitut at Oberwolfach (FRG) in December 1987.

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• Verlag: Springer New York
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0387969543
• ISBN 13: 9780387969541
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292
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