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Extreme Quantile and Tail Estimation

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With the sea level case study introduced in Section 1.1.4 and further discussed in Section 3.1, we illustrated the role of extreme value theory in extreme quantile estimation. In the sequel we explore this example a bit further.

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(2006). Extreme Quantile and Tail Estimation. In: Extreme Value Theory. Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-34471-3_4

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