BACKGROUND INFORMATION FOR LECTURES ON EXTREME VALUE THEORY SPRING 2015


First NCSU lecture: February 19, 2015

Second NCSU lecture: March 31, 2015

Dataset on women's 5 best 3000 meter running times for each year from 1972 through 1992

Parallel dataset on women's best 1500 meter running times from 1972 through 1992

Sample R code

Sample MCMC output created by R code with nsim=1000000, nsave=100