Environmental Extremes Organised by the Environmental Statistics Section of the Royal Statistical Society. Thursday 2 December 2010 (10:30am - 4pm) RSS, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX

Summary

For both statisticians and their scientific colleagues, this meeting will provide introductions to the statistics for analyzing extreme events along with research examples of their application within environmental science.

Please use the form available here to register.

Please contact Ron Smith for further details.

Speakers

Anthony Davison (Ecole Poytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

- Statistics of extremes: An overview

Jonathan Tawn and Jenny Wadsworth (University of Lancaster)

- An overview of Dependence Modelling in Multivariate Extremes

Registration

You need not be a member of the Royal Statistical Society to attend, but registration will be required.

Registration fees, which cover lunch and refreshments, are as follows:

Retired/Student Fellows £25

CStat/GradStat £30

Fellows £33

Members £37

None of the above £45

Programme

Venue

The meeting will take place at the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX.

Directions can be found here

Abstracts

Anthony Davison - Statistics of extremes: An overview

This first talk will sketch elements of statistics of extremes, including probability models and statistical inference for extremes of independent and dependent data, regression modelling and non-stationarity.

Jonathan Tawn and Jenny Wadsworth - An overview of Dependence Modelling in Multivariate Extremes

For problems where interest is estimation of the extremal behaviour of combinations of dependent variables, multivariate extreme theory provides a range of asymptotically motivated dependence measures and modelling approaches. In this talk we will outline the key existing methods and suggest a new approach that bridges the gap between the two most widely used.