Abstract: | Let {Xk}k?1 be a strictly stationary time series. For a strictly increasing sampling function g:?→? define Yk=Xg(k) as the deterministic sub‐sampled time series. In this paper, the extreme value theory of {Yk} is studied when Xk has representation as a moving average driven by heavy‐tailed innovations. Under mild conditions, convergence results for a sequence of point processes based on {Yk} are proved and extremal properties of the deterministic sub‐sampled time series are derived. In particular, we obtain the limiting distribution of the maximum and the corresponding extremal index. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |