1. Likelihood-Based Inference for Extreme Value Models

   • Stuart G. Coles
   • Mark J. Dixon

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 23

2. Testing Appearance of Polynomial Trend

   • Daniela JaruškovÁ

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 37

3. Tail Behavior, Modes and other Characteristics of Stable Distributions

   • Hippolyte Fofack
   • John P. Nolan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 58

4. Extremes of a Gaussian Process and the Constant H _α

   • Ju¨rg Hu¨sler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 59 - 70

5. Approximation by Penultimate Extreme Value Distributions

   • M. Ivette Gomes
   • Laurens De Haan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 85

6. HARCH Processes are Heavy Tailed

   • Paul Embrechts
   • Rudolf Gru¨bel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 93

7. Asymptotic Distribution of Extremes of Randomly Indexed Random Variables

   • Chang C.Y. Dorea
   • Ca´tia R. GonÇalves

   OriginalPaper Pages: 95 - 109

8. Book Review

   OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 113