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  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
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10 Pages

Climate change has resulted in frequent extreme weather events such as heavy rainfall and heat waves in Japan, making accurate forecasting and countermeasures an urgent issue. Therefore, it is urgently required to analyze the statistical characterist...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Computation, Big-Data and Engineering (ICCBE))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
10,260 Views
35 Pages

We analyze extreme gold price movements between 1975 and 2025 using Extreme Value Theory (EVT). Using both the Block-Maxima and Peaks-over-Threshold approaches on a daily return basis, we estimate Value-at-Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) for t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
935 Views
25 Pages

10 August 2026

Extreme wind speed events pose a significant threat to structural safety and are an important consideration in the design of the growing renewable energy sectors. This study models extreme wind speeds in Namibia by applying Extreme Value Theory (EVT)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,801 Views
14 Pages

Extreme Value Laws for Superstatistics

  • Pau Rabassa and
  • Christian Beck

20 October 2014

We study the extreme value distribution of stochastic processes modeled by superstatistics. Classical extreme value theory asserts that (under mild asymptotic independence assumptions) only three possible limit distributions are possible, namely: Gum...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Applied Statistical Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,777 Views
10 Pages

Bayesian extreme value analysis was used to forecast the optimal point in agricultural commodity futures prices in the United States for cocoa, coffee, corn, soybeans and wheat. Data were collected daily between 2000 and 2020. The estimation of extre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asset Pricing, Investment, and Trading Strategies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,501 Views
18 Pages

Modeling of Extreme Values via Exponential Normalization Compared with Linear and Power Normalization

  • Haroon Mohamed Barakat,
  • Osama Mohareb Khaled and
  • Nourhan Khalil Rakha

14 November 2020

Several new asymmetric distributions have arisen naturally in the modeling extreme values are uncovered and elucidated. The present paper deals with the extreme value theorem (EVT) under exponential normalization. An estimate of the shape parameter o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetric and Asymmetric Distributions: Theoretical Developments and Applications II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,145 Views
20 Pages

5 March 2025

When extreme wind pressure is predicted based on the extreme value distribution theory, the sampling time–distance and sample volume of wind pressure data are important influencing factors. To discuss and analyze the influence of time–dis...

(This article belongs to the Section Atmospheric Techniques, Instruments, and Modeling)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,541 Views
10 Pages

On the Extreme Value H-Function

  • Pushpa Narayan Rathie,
  • Luan Carlos de Sena Monteiro Ozelim,
  • Felipe Quintino and
  • Tiago A. da Fonseca

4 August 2023

In the present paper, a new special function, the so-called extreme value H-function, is introduced. This new function, which is a generalization of the H-function with a particular set of parameters, appears while dealing with products and quotients...

  • Article
  • Open Access
960 Views
17 Pages

16 April 2026

The life insurance sector plays a critical role in financial system stability but is inherently exposed to extreme market fluctuations due to long-term liabilities and asset–liability mismatches. This study investigates extreme losses in the gr...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
981 Views
21 Pages

7 December 2025

This study models the spatiotemporal heterogeneity of extreme rainfall over the Korean Peninsula using the generalised additive extreme value models (EVGAM) to address the limitations of traditional stationary approaches under climate change. Analyzi...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,351 Views
14 Pages

Extreme Value Theory in Application to Delivery Delays

  • Marcin Fałdziński,
  • Magdalena Osińska and
  • Wojciech Zalewski

22 June 2021

This paper uses the Extreme Value Theory (EVT) to model the rare events that appear as delivery delays in road transport. Transport delivery delays occur stochastically. Therefore, modeling such events should be done using appropriate tools due to th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Theory and Modeling of Rare, Extreme Events: Entropy and Information Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,916 Views
24 Pages

The reliability of extreme wind speed predictions at large mean recurrence intervals (MRI) is assessed by bootstrapping samples from representative known distributions. The classical asymptotic generalized extreme value distribution (GEV) and the gen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,510 Views
10 Pages

1 August 2024

This study concentrates on a new approach for solving a class of multi-cost convex interval-valued extremization problems. Namely, we apply the weighting technique to find efficient solutions to these problems, defined in terms of LU-efficiency and w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Applications in Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,283 Views
25 Pages

This study reviews advanced extreme value theory techniques and applies them to extreme rainfall events recorded at two meteorological stations, Port Edward and Virginia, in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. The study aims to provide a comp...

(This article belongs to the Section Natural Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,661 Views
20 Pages

Calibration of NSRP Models from Extreme Value Distributions

  • Davide Luciano De Luca and
  • Luciano Galasso

16 October 2019

In this work, the authors investigated the feasibility of calibrating a model which is suitable for the generation of continuous high-resolution rainfall series, by using only data from annual maximum rainfall (AMR) series, which are usually longer t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,040 Views
20 Pages

17 December 2020

This paper develops a method for assessing portfolio tail risk based on extreme value theory. The technique applies separate estimations of univariate series and allows for closed-form expressions for Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall. Its forecas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Extreme Value Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,187 Views
15 Pages

Modeling the Risk of Extreme Value Dependence in Chinese Regional Carbon Emission Markets

  • Hong Qiu,
  • Genhua Hu,
  • Yuhong Yang,
  • Jeffrey Zhang and
  • Ting Zhang

24 September 2020

In this study, we analyze the risk of extreme value dependence in Chinese regional carbon emission markets. After filtering the daily return data of six carbon markets in China using a generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GARCH)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk Management Challenges for Sustainability and Wellbeing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,961 Views
24 Pages

Extreme Sea Levels Associated with Hurricane Storm Surges: Seasonal Variability, ENSO Modulation and Extreme-Value Analysis Along the Mexican Coasts

  • Felícitas Calderón-Vega,
  • Manuel Viñes,
  • César Mösso,
  • E. Delgadillo-Ruiz and ,
  • Marc Mestres,
  • L. A. Arias-Hernández and
  • Daniel Gonzalez-Marco
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Extreme sea levels along the Mexican coasts pose an increasing risk to coastal infrastructure and communities, particularly under the combined influence of tropical cyclones and ongoing sea-level rise. This study analyzes tide-gauge records from the...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,531 Views
18 Pages

31 December 2020

This paper aims to mark out new concepts of r-single valued neutrosophic sets, called r-single valued neutrosophic £-closed and £-open sets. The definition of £-single valued neutrosophic irresolute mapping is provided and its chara...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Development of Neutrosophic Probability, Neutrosophic Statistics, Neutrosophic Algebraic Structures, and Neutrosophic & Plithogenic Optimizations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,624 Views
16 Pages

27 September 2018

The main aim of this study is to determine the threshold values for extreme sea and weather events on the Polish Baltic coast. The study is based on daily hydrometeorological data on the sea level; air temperature and atmospheric precipitation collec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coastal Vulnerability and Mitigation Strategies: From Monitoring to Applied Research )
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,620 Views
24 Pages

Return Level Prediction with a New Mixture Extreme Value Model

  • Emrah Altun,
  • Hana N. Alqifari and
  • Kadir Söyler

22 August 2025

The generalized Pareto distribution is frequently used for modeling extreme values above an appropriate threshold level. Since the process of determining the appropriate threshold value is difficult, a mixture of extreme value models rises to promine...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modelling and Applied Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
12,134 Views
16 Pages

9 February 2017

Floods are the most common and widely distributed natural risk, causing over £1 billion of damage per year in the UK as a result of recent events. Climatic projections predict an increase in flood risk; it becomes urgent to assess climate change imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,358 Views
23 Pages

An Analysis of Precipitation Extreme Events Based on the SPI and EDI Values in the Free State Province, South Africa

  • Omolola M. Adeola,
  • Muthoni Masinde,
  • Joel O. Botai,
  • Abiodun M. Adeola and
  • Christina M. Botai

2 November 2021

Recognizing that, over the last several years, extreme rainfall has led to hazardous stress in humans, animals, plants, and even infrastructure, in the present study, we aimed to investigate the characteristics of droughts over the Free State (FS) Pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,485 Views
13 Pages

30 June 2021

The Hurwitz complex continued fraction is a generalization of the nearest integer continued fraction. In this paper, we prove various results concerning extremes of the modulus of Hurwitz complex continued fraction digits. This includes a Poisson law...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Extreme Value Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,117 Views
19 Pages

Wind energy is a cornerstone of the global transition to renewable and sustainable energy systems. However, the same meteorological processes that generate this clean energy can also produce extreme wind events that threaten the structural integrity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,985 Views
22 Pages

6 February 2022

Extreme value modeling for extreme rainfall is one of the most important processes in the field of hydrology. For the improvement of extreme value modeling and its physical meaning, large-scale climate modes have been widely used as covariates of dis...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydrology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,738 Views
24 Pages

An Extreme Value Analysis-Based Systemic Approach in Healthcare Information Systems: The Case of Dietary Intake

  • Dimitrios P. Panagoulias,
  • Dionisios N. Sotiropoulos and
  • George A. Tsihrintzis

31 December 2022

Biomarkers are measurements of biological variables that can determine a state of health. They consist of measuring a single variable or a combination of variables related to the state of health that these variables represent. Biomarkers can provide...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trends and Applications in Information Systems and Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,281 Views
19 Pages

18 October 2023

Climate change poses higher requirements on ocean engineering design, and reasonable estimation of design wave heights plays a crucial role in coastal protection and offshore engineering. Extreme value analysis is widely used in frequency calculation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research in Civil, Hydraulic, and Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,910 Views
17 Pages

This paper attempted to calculate the market risk in the Tehran Stock Exchange by estimating the Conditional Value at Risk. Since the Conditional Value at Risk is a tail-related measure, Extreme Value Theory has been utilized to estimate the risk mor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Rational Decision Making in Risk Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,598 Views
20 Pages

Tail Risks in Corporate Finance: Simulation-Based Analyses of Extreme Values

  • Christoph J. Börner,
  • Dietmar Ernst and
  • Ingo Hoffmann

Recently, simulation-based methods for assessing company-specific risks have become increasingly popular in corporate finance. This is because modern capital market theory, with its assumptions of perfect and complete capital markets, cannot satisfac...

(This article belongs to the Section Financial Markets)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,070 Views
16 Pages

In this paper, the generalised extreme value distribution (GEVD) model is employed to estimate financial risk in the form of return levels and the value at risk (VaR) for the two exchange rates, BitCoin/US dollar (BTC/USD) and the South African rand/...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Financial Econometrics and Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,986 Views
19 Pages

A marathon was recently run in less than 2 h by a man who ran the three fastest marathons ever recorded in a span of three years—Eliud Kipchoge—in the Tokyo Olympic games. Here, we demonstrate that the best marathons were run according to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Marathon: Environmental and Public Health Aspects)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,351 Views
17 Pages

Extreme Value Index Estimation by Means of an Inequality Curve

  • Emanuele Taufer,
  • Flavio Santi,
  • Pier Luigi Novi Inverardi,
  • Giuseppe Espa and
  • Maria Michela Dickson

19 October 2020

A characterizing property of Zenga (1984) inequality curve is exploited in order to develop an estimator for the extreme value index of a distribution with regularly varying tail. The approach proposed here has a nice graphical interpretation which p...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Probability and Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,583 Views
15 Pages

We consider a risk-aware multi-armed bandit framework with the goal of avoiding catastrophic risk. Such a framework has multiple applications in financial risk management. We introduce a new conditional value-at-risk (CVaR) estimation procedure combi...

(This article belongs to the Section Risk)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,966 Views
24 Pages

9 September 2021

This paper deals with the extreme value analysis for the triangular arrays which appear when some parameters of the mixture model vary as the number of observations grows. When the mixing parameter is small, it is natural to associate one of the comp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Applications of Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,168 Views
19 Pages

Optimization of Parameters in the Generalized Extreme-Value Distribution Type 1 for Three Populations Using Harmonic Search

  • Juan Pablo Molina-Aguilar,
  • Alfonso Gutierrez-Lopez,
  • Jose Angel Raynal-Villaseñor and
  • Luis Gabriel Garcia-Valenzuela

Due to its geographical position, Mexico is exposed annually to cold fronts and tropical cyclones, registering extremely high values that are atypical in the series of maximum annual flows. Univariate mixed probability distribution functions have bee...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Weather and Climate Extremes: Current Developments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,046 Views
15 Pages

2 August 2021

As the distribution function of traffic load effect on bridge structures has always been unknown or very complicated, a probability model of extreme traffic load effect during service periods has not yet been perfectly predicted by the traditional ex...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structural Health Monitoring in Civil Infrastructure)
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,496 Views
22 Pages

Earthquake Catastrophe Bond Pricing Using Extreme Value Theory: A Mini-Review Approach

  • Wulan Anggraeni,
  • Sudradjat Supian,
  • Sukono and
  • Nurfadhlina Binti Abdul Halim

9 November 2022

Earthquake catastrophe bond pricing models (ECBPMs) employ extreme value theory (EVT) to predict severe losses, although studies on EVT’s use in ECBPMs are still rare. Therefore, this study aimed to use a mini-review approach (MRA) to examine t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,688 Views
10 Pages

Accelerated Climate Changes in Weddell Sea Region of Antarctica Detected by Extreme Values Theory

  • Giuseppe Prete,
  • Vincenzo Capparelli,
  • Fabio Lepreti and
  • Vincenzo Carbone

4 February 2021

On 13 February 2020, The Guardian, followed by many other newspapers and websites, published the news that on 9 February 2020, Antarctic air temperatures rose to about 20.75 ∘C in a base logged at Seymour Island. This value has not yet been validated...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling Multiscale Dynamics by Statistical Mechanics in Heliophysics and Geophysics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,599 Views
12 Pages

13 June 2025

Arguably, the most fundamental problem in Network Science is finding structure within a complex network. Often, this is achieved by partitioning the network’s nodes into communities in a way that maximizes an objective function. However, findin...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,112 Views
12 Pages

Extremal Solutions for a Caputo-Type Fractional-Order Initial Value Problem

  • Keyu Zhang,
  • Tian Wang,
  • Donal O’Regan and
  • Jiafa Xu

In this paper, we study the existence of extremal solutions for a Caputo-type fractional-order initial value problem. By using the monotone iteration technique and the upper–lower solution method, we obtain our existence theorem when the nonlin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Fractional Initial and Boundary Value Problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
902 Views
28 Pages

Explainable Optimization of Extreme Value Analysis for Photovoltaic Prediction: Introducing Dynamic Correlation Shifts and Weighted Benchmarking

  • Dimitrios P. Panagoulias,
  • Elissaios Sarmas,
  • Vangelis Marinakis,
  • Maria Virvou and
  • George A. Tsihrintzis

17 November 2025

We present an enhanced Extreme Value Analysis (EVA) framework designed to improve the forecasting of extremely low-production events in photovoltaic (PV) systems and to reveal the key inter-variable relationships governing performance under extreme c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trends and Prospects in AI-Empowered Information Systems and Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,806 Views
16 Pages

24 April 2018

One of the key components of financial risk management is risk measurement. This typically requires modeling, estimating and forecasting tail-related quantities of the asset returns’ conditional distribution. Recent advances in the financial ec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,492 Views
27 Pages

Financial market data are abundant with outliers, and the search for an appropriate extreme value theory (EVT) approach to apply is an endless debate in the statistics of extremes research. This paper uses EVT methods to model the five-year daily all...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,279 Views
23 Pages

Agglomerative Clustering with Threshold Optimization via Extreme Value Theory

  • Chunchun Li,
  • Manuel Günther,
  • Akshay Raj Dhamija,
  • Steve Cruz and ,
  • Mohsen Jafarzadeh,
  • Touqeer Ahmad and
  • Terrance E. Boult
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 May 2022

Clustering is a critical part of many tasks and, in most applications, the number of clusters in the data are unknown and must be estimated. This paper presents an Extreme Value Theory-based approach to threshold selection for clustering, proving tha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nature-Inspired Algorithms in Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,205 Views
24 Pages

A Lower-Bounded Extreme Value Distribution for Flood Frequency Analysis with Applications

  • Fatimah E. Almuhayfith,
  • Maher Kachour,
  • Amira F. Daghestani,
  • Zahid Ur Rehman and ,
  • Tassaddaq Hussain and
  • Hassan S. Bakouch
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

23 October 2025

This paper proposes the lower-bounded Fréchet–log-logistic distribution (LFLD), a probability model designed for robust flood frequency analysis (FFA). The LFLD addresses key limitations of traditional distributions (e.g., generalized ex...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reliability Estimation and Mathematical Statistics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,119 Views
17 Pages

Extreme Value Index Estimation for Pareto-Type Tails under Random Censorship and via Generalized Means

  • M. Ivette Gomes,
  • Lígia Henriques-Rodrigues,
  • M. Manuela Neves and
  • Helena Penalva

26 September 2024

The field of statistical extreme value theory (EVT) focuses on estimating parameters associated with extreme events, such as the probability of exceeding a high threshold or determining a high quantile that lies at or beyond the observed data range....

(This article belongs to the Section Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,158 Views
24 Pages

The Asymptotic Decision Scenarios of an Emerging Stock Exchange Market: Extreme Value Theory and Artificial Neural Network

  • Abdul-Aziz Ibn Musah,
  • Jianguo Du,
  • Hira Salah Ud din Khan and
  • Alhassan Alolo Abdul-Rasheed Akeji

16 November 2018

In recent times, investing in volatile security increases the risk of losses and reduces gains. Many traders who depend on these risks indulge in multiple volatility procedures to inform their trading strategies. We explore two models to measure the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,299 Views
14 Pages

3 February 2021

The advantage of quantum mechanics to shift up the ability to econometrically understand extreme tail losses in financial data has become more desirable, especially in cases of Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) predictions. Behind the n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Theory Applications of Finance and Macroeconomics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5,495 Views
18 Pages

4 December 2023

This article conducts an extreme value analysis (EVA) of hourly tide gauge measurements at Busan, South Korea, from 1960 onwards to understand the influence of typhoon-driven surges and predicted tides that super-elevate ocean still water levels (SWL...

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