1 UNIVARIATE EXTREME VALUE THEORY1.1 Order Statistics1.1.1 Definitions and properties1.1.2 Distribution of the smallest value1.1.3 Distribution of the largest value1.
1.4 Distributions of order statistics1.2 Extreme value theory1.2.1 '¬SBlocks'¬¥ models1.2.2 '¬SThresholds'¬¥ models1.2.
3 Contagious Extreme Value Distributions1.3 Natural Hazards1.3.1 Earthquakes1.3.2 Volcanic eruptions1.3.3 Tsunamis1.
3.4 Landslides1.3.5 Avalanches1.3.6 Windstorms1.3.7 Extreme sea levels and high waves1.
3.8 Low flows and droughts1.3.9 Wildfires and their Effects 2 MULTIVARIATE EXTREME VALUE THEORY2.1 Laws of Multivariate Extremes2.2 Characterizations of MEV laws 3 BIVARIATE ANALYSIS VIA COPULAS3.1 2-Copulas3.2 Archimedean copulas3.
3 Return periods3.3.1 Univariate vsbivariate frequency analysis3.3.2 The '¬SOR'¬¥ case3.3.3 The '¬SAND'¬¥ case3.3.
4 Conditional return periods3.3.5 Secondary return period3.4 Tail dependence 4 MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS VIA COPULAS4.1 Multivariate copulas4.2 Archimedean copulas4.3 Conditional mixtures4.3.
1 The 3-dimensional case4.3.2 The 4-dimensional case4.3.3 The general case 5 EXTREME VALUE ANALYSIS VIA COPULAS5.1 Extreme Value copulas5.2 Dependence function5.2.
1 The bivariate case5.2.2 The general case5.3 Tail dependence A SIMULATION OF COPULASA.1 The 2-dimensional caseA.2 The general case B DEPENDENCEB.1 Bivariate concepts of dependenceB.1.
1 Quadrant dependenceB.1.2 Tail monotonicityB.1.3 Stochastic monotonicityB.1.4 Corner set monotonicityB.1.
5 Dependence orderingsB.1.6 Measure of DependenceB.2 Measures of associationB.2.1 Measures of ConcordanceB.2.2 Kendall's KB.
2.3 Spearman's S C FAMILIES OF COPULASC.1 The Frank familyC.2 The Gumbel-Hougaard familyC.3 The Clayton familyC.4 The Ali-Mikhail-Haq (AMH) familyC.5 The Joe familyC.6 The Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern (FGM) familyC.
7 The Plackett familyC.8 The Raftery familyC.9 The Galambos familyC.10 The Husler-Reiss familyC.11 The Elliptical familyC.12 The FrÂ'echet familyC.13 The Marshall-Olkin familyC.14 The Archimax familyC.
15 Construction methods for copulasC.15.1 Transformation of copulasC.15.2 Composition of copulasC.15.3 Copulas with given diagonal section REFERENCES INDEX.