Statistics of Extremes

Universally acknowledged as the classic text about statistics of extremes, this was the first book devoted exclusively to extreme values. Geared towards use by statisticians and statistically minded scientists and engineers, it employs elementary terms to explain applications, favors, graphical procedures over calculations and presents simple generalizations as exercises -0 all of which contribute to its values as a classroom text. Starting with definitions of its aims and tools, the text proceeds to discussions of order statistics and their exceedances, exact distributions of extremes and analytical study of extremes. Additional topics include the first asymptotic distribution: uses of the first, second and third asymptotes: and the range.