An Introduction to Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values

1. Introduction.- 2. Basics of Statistical Modeling.- 3. Classical Extreme Value Theory and Models.- 4. Threshold Models.- 5. Extremes of Dependent Sequences.- 6. Extremes of Non-Stationary Sequences.- 7. A Point Process Characterization of Extremes.- 8. Multivariate Extremes.- 9. Further Topics.- Appendix A: Computational Aspects.- Index.