Laws of Small Numbers: Extremes and Rare Events

• Main Authors: Falk, Michael (Author), Hüsler, Jürg (Author), Reiss, Rolf-Dieter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Springer Basel, 2011.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Statistical Theory and Methods.

Since the publication of the first edition of this seminar book in 1994, the theory and applications of extremes and rare events have enjoyed an enormous and still increasing interest. The intention of the book is to give a mathematically oriented development of the theory of rare events underlying...