# POT: Generalized Pareto Distribution and Peaks Over Threshold

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`POT` provides some functions useful to perform a Peak Over Threshold analysis in univariate and bivariate cases, see Beirlant et al. (2004)

## The package

The stable version of `POT` can be installed from CRAN using:

``` r
install.packages("POT")
```

Finally load the package in your current R session with the following R command:

``` r
library(POT)
```

## Documentation

The overall documentation is available at

``` r
help(POT)
```

See also the vignette.

