Explores extreme values in random variables, applications in environmental factors, reliability modeling, block maxima distribution, and the Generalized Extreme Value distribution.
Explores portfolio optimization models and strategies under uncertainty, emphasizing decision criteria like value-at-risk and mean-variance functional.
Covers methods to define the design storm, empirical distribution of rainfall maxima, Gumbel distribution, and intensity-duration-frequency relationships.
Covers Generalized Linear Models, likelihood, deviance, link functions, sampling methods, Poisson regression, over-dispersion, and alternative regression models.