Extreme Value Statistics

Laurens de Haan
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Laurens de Haan: Erasmus University Rotterdam

A chapter in Extreme Value Theory and Applications, 1994, pp 93-122 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The sea dike problem: The Dutch government specifies that sea dikes should be built so high that a flood occurs once in 10,000 years (assuming stationarity), i.e. the probability of a flood in a given year should be 1/10,000.

Keywords: Asymptotic Normality; Lifetime Data; Dutch Government; Currency Exchange Rate; Hill Estimator (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-3638-9_6

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