ST803: Extreme Value Statistics

The Study Board for Science

Teaching language: Danish or English depending on the teacher, but English if international students are enrolled
EKA: N370002102
Assessment: Second examiner: Internal
Grading: 7-point grading scale
Offered in: Odense
Offered in: Spring
Level: Master's level course approved as PhD course

STADS ID (UVA): N370002101
ECTS value: 5

Date of Approval: 14-10-2025


Duration: 1 semester

Version: Approved - active

Entry requirements

None

Academic preconditions

Students taking the course are expected to:
  • Have knowledge of mathematical statistics and probability theory as taught in the courses ST521 Mathematical Statistics and MM544 Probability Theory

Course introduction

The aim of the course is to enable the student to work in a rigorous way with probability models for extreme values, which is important in regard to modelling of extreme events, e.g. in finance and insurance.

Expected learning outcome

The learning objectives of the course is that the student demonstrates the ability to:
  • reproduce the theoretical results concerning the convergence of maxima and excesses over a threshold
  • verify if a distribution is in the domain of attraction of the generalized extreme value distribution
  • verify if a distribution function satisfies the second order condition on tail behavior
  • describe the principles of tail index estimation and extreme quantile estimation, and to apply these in a given practical setting
  • perform programming relevant to the content of the course in the statistical package used in the course
  • identify and interpret relevant information in the output of the statistical package used in the course
  • summarize the results of an extreme value analysis in a statistical report

Content

The following main topics are contained in the course:
Graphical tools for tail analysis, order statistics, convergence of normalized sample maxima, domain of attraction of the generalized extreme value distribution, convergence of excesses over thresholds, the generalized Pareto distribution, second order tail behavior, estimation of the tail index, extremes in regression analysis.

Literature

See itslearning for syllabus lists and additional literature references.

Examination regulations

Exam element a)

Timing

June

Tests

Oral exam

EKA

N370002102

Assessment

Second examiner: Internal

Grading

7-point grading scale

Identification

Student Identification Card - Name

Language

Normally, the same as teaching language

Examination aids

Exam with limited aids

ECTS value

5

Indicative number of lessons

40 hours per semester

Teaching Method

Planned lessons:
Total number of planned lessons: 40
Hereof:
Common lessons in classroom/auditorium: 40

The course introduces the topics at a general level in lectures and exercises sessions will be devoted to work on exercises based on the topics presented in previous lectures.

Other planned teaching activities:

Studying the course material and preparing the weekly exercises, individually or through group work.

Teacher responsible

Name E-mail Department
Yuri Goegebeur Yuri.Goegebeur@imada.sdu.dk Data Science

Timetable

Administrative Unit

Institut for Matematik og Datalogi (matematik)

Team at Registration

NAT

Offered in

Odense

Recommended course of study

Profile Education Semester Offer period

Transition rules

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