Presentation: Applying extreme value theory to public health

This talk will show applications of the extreme value theory to public health data. We will present two methods in relation to the extreme value theory: the blocks method and the peaks-over-threshold method and apply them to weekly death rates from pneumonia and influenza over the period 1979-2011 in France. 

We will then present an extended version of the extreme value theory which can be applied in the multivariate setting. More specifically, we shall attempt to build a structural equation model using the peaks-over-threshold method in order to study causal relationships among multiple variables.

Speaker

• Danyu Li
  •  PhD student DESS / Division de biostatistique Unisanté