Recently there has been an increasing interest in applying elliptical distributions to risk management. Under weak conditions, Hult and Lindskog (2002) showed that a random vector with an elliptical distribution is in the domain of attraction of a multivariate extreme value distribution. In this...

Functional data analysis (FDA) is an active field of statistics, in which the primary subjectsin the study are curves. My dissertation consists of two innovative applications offunctional data analysis in biology. The data that motivated the research broadened thescope of FDA and demanded new...

Suppose that {[xi]j} is a strictly stationary sequence which satisfies the strong mixing condition. Denote by M(k)n the kth largest value of [xi]1,[xi]2,...,[xi]n, and {[upsilon]n(·)} a sequence of normalizing functions for which P[M(1)n[less-than-or-equals, slant][upsilon]n(x)]converges...