The Fundamentals of Heavy Tails

Adam (California Institute of Technology) Wierman, Bert (Stichting Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam) Zwart, Jayakrishnan (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay) Nair

Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Heavy tails - extreme events more common than expected - are everywhere, but they are still treated as mysterious and confusing because the necessary mathematical models are not widely known. For the first time, this book provides a rigorous introduction to heavy-tailed distributions accessible to anyone who knows elementary probability.

ISBN-13
9781316511732
ISBN-10
1316511731
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2022
Publication date
2022-06-09
Pages
264
Dimensions
183x260x19
Weight
684