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Title: Statistical Analysis of Extreme Values: With Applications to Insurance, Finance, Hydrology, and Other Fields by R.-D Reiss, Michael Thomas, R. D. Reiss, M. Thomas ISBN: 3-7643-6487-4 Publisher: Birkhauser Boston Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $77.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: looks the same as first edition but is expanded
Comment: The second edition came out in 2001 and although my previous review is listed here it refers to the first edition. Professor Reiss sent me a copy of the second edition and I browsed through it to see what has changed. Except for the words "Second Edition" in the upper left corner of the cover page the cover is the same as the original. A closer look through the text shows that there are substantial changes. The original text was 316 pages long with 35 references and a CD Rom on the back page. The new edition is 443 pages with 51 references and a CD Rom on the back page (this is version 3.0 of Xtremes).
The preface to the second edition tells you precisely what is added. There are 8 new contributing authors who are Stuart Coles , Jurg Husler, Daniel Dietrich, Dietnar Pfeifer, Humberto Vaquera, Jose Villasenor, Pieter van Gelder and Dan Lungu and apparently the two main authors will encourage more contributors for a third edition. The authors are very much interested in demonstrating applications of extreme value theory using their Xtremes software and generously invite others to join in.
The structure and theme of the book has not changed. Section I on modeling and analysis has replaced the section on robust statistics with a section called heavy and fat-tailed distributions. The sections are slightly longer in the second edition. Chapter 2 has an additional section called the auto-tail-dependence function.
Part II on inference for parametric models includes a whole new chapter on Poisson Processes (Chapter 7). In Part III on multivariate methods, Chapter 9 on multivariate maxima includes a new section on the Gumbel-McFadden Model and Chapter 10 a new section on bivariate peaks over a threshold.
Part IV on topics in Hydrology, Insurance and Finance is totally revised and consists of Chapters 11-14 in place of the original Chapters 9-11. The old Chapters 9 and 10 are now Chapters 12 and 13 respectively.
In Part V there are again five case studies but they are totally new ones with the new authors that are acknowledged in the preface.
In the appendix they have replaced the description of the XPL programming language with the StatPascal language.
Rating: 5
Summary: emphasizes applications using XTREMES software
Comment: The software XTREMES was introduced by Falk, Husler and Reiss in their 1994 book "Laws of Small Numbers: Extremes and Rare Events". That book was mainly theoretical and the software was in an MS-DOS version for PCs. This text was published in 1997. For this text they supply a Windows (3.1 , 95, NT) version on a CD ROM.
In this book the emphasis is on applications in insurance, finance, hydrology and other fields. The first 10 chapters develop the theory and teach the use of XTREMES presenting dialog boxes and descriptions. The text is divided into 5 parts. Part I deals with modeling and data analysis, part II covers statistical infrence for parametric models, in part III elements of multivariate analysis are introduced, part IV emphasizes the application areas and part V is a collection of case studies using XTREMES. There are five case studies. One presented by Reiss but other presented by notable researchers including Tai Hsing, Jurg Husler, Ana Ferreira, Edgar Kaufmann and Cornelia Hillgartner. The appendices provide additional details on XTREMES. This is a very unique text that is valuable to anyone interested in doing research or applications of extreme value theory. Includes coverage of the parametric bootstrap.
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Title: Modelling Extremal Events for Insurance and Finance (Applications of Mathematics, Vol 33) by Paul Embrechts, Claudia Kluppelberg, Thomas Mikosch ISBN: 3540609318 Publisher: Springer-Verlag Pub. Date: 11 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $97.00 |
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Title: Extreme Value Distributions: Theory and Applications by Samuel Kotz, Saralees Nadarajah ISBN: 1860942245 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: An Introduction to Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values by Stuart Coles ISBN: 1852334592 Publisher: Springer-Verlag Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $79.95 |
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Title: An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance by Michel M. Dacorogna, Ramazan Gençay, Ulrich A. Müller, Richard B. Olsen, Olivier V. Pictet ISBN: 0122796713 Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $84.95 |
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Title: An Elementary Introduction to Mathematical Finance: Options and Other Topics by Sheldon M. Ross ISBN: 0521814294 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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