Further Resources

Handbook of Statistics of Extremes

Articles & Books

The Handbook points to a broad range of articles and books; among these, several well-regarded monographs are highlighted in Chapter 2 by Anthony C. Davison and Ophélia Miralles.

EVA Conference

Many developments featured in this Handbook were first presented at the EVA Conference, a long-standing forum that brings together researchers and practitioners working on Extreme Value Analysis. Since its inception, the EVA conference has played a central role in fostering collaboration and shaping the field. The EVA Conference traces its origins to the first meeting on Statistical Extremes and Applications (EVA 0), held in Vimeiro, Portugal, in 1983.

EVA 0 — Statistical Extremes and Applications, Vimeiro, Portugal (1983).
Courtesy of Feridun Turkman and Laurens de Haan.

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Extremes Journal

An indicator of the field’s vitality is the Springer journal Extremes, which regularly publishes novel methodological developments across all areas of extreme value statistics. While a range of other outlets feature work on the statistical modeling of extreme events, Extremes is widely regarded as the leading journal within the extreme value theory community. Many of the central developments presented in the Handbook have been published in Extremes or in other leading journals in the field.

One of the forthcoming special issues of Extremes is dedicated to the interface between Extreme Value Analysis and AI. A preview of the editorial is available here.

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Software

This Handbook owes much to the publicly available software developed for extreme value analysis. A curated list of packages for statistics of extremes is available at

https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ExtremeValue.html

Several packages are used throughout the book, including evd, evdbayes, evgam, evir, extRemes, extremis, ismev2, POT, and SpatialExtremes. Additional packages are employed in specific chapters, and contributors acknowledge them where relevant.

Seminars

The One World Extremes seminar series, supported by the Bernoulli Society, connects researchers in the field and features both theoretical developments and applied work in extreme value analysis.

https://sites.google.com/view/ow-extremes/home

EVA Newsletter

The newsletter provides a convenient way to advertise opportunities relevant to the worldwide Extreme Value Analysis community, and to allow its members to easily keep abreast of some of the most recent developments. For more information and to subscribe, email e.v.analysis.news@gmail.com

Miscellanea

Other meetings, such as EVAN (International Conference on Advances in Extreme Value Analysis), also provide valuable forums for discussion. Several networks devoted to extreme value theory are active; for example, in Scotland, the Glasgow–Edinburgh Extremes Network (GLE\(^2\)N) has provided leadership for a range of activities and events, including GAME 2025—the first workshop on Generative AI Modeling for Extreme Events. A related local extreme values network—CIRCE—is also active in Italy.

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