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Threshold models for the analysis of environmental extremes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Richard L. Smith
Richard L. Smith*
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Imperial College, London
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Statistical methods for analysing the extreme values of a time series may be based on the observed exceedances of the series above a high threshold level. Todorovic (1979) has developed this approach in detail; other relevant references are North (1980) and the English Flood Studies Report (1975). One way of motivating these models is by reference to the theory of extremes in stationary sequences, due to Leadbetter and others.

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Applied Probability in Biology and Engineering. An ORSA/TIMS Special Interest Meeting
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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 1984 , pp. 20
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1984 

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