Extreme Value Analysis

General functions for performing extreme value analysis. In particular, allows for inclusion of covariates into the parameters of the extreme-value distributions, as well as estimation through MLE, L-moments, generalized (penalized) MLE (GMLE), as well as Bayes. Inference methods include parametric normal approximation, profile-likelihood, Bayes, and bootstrapping. Some bivariate functionality and dependence checking (e.g., auto-tail dependence function plot, extremal index estimation) is also included. For a tutorial, see Gilleland and Katz (2016) and for bootstrapping, please see Gilleland (2020) .


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install.packages("extRemes")

2.2-1 by Eric Gilleland, a year ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/extRemes


Authors: Eric Gilleland [aut, cre] (ORCID:


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL (>= 2) license


Imports graphics, stats, methods

Depends on Lmoments, distillery

Suggests fields


Imported by ExtremeConformal, HMMHSMM, NSTempRFA, climextRemes, extremeStat.

Suggested by floodflow, lax.


See at CRAN