“…It would be possible, but computationally intensive, to apply particle filtering to find the ML estimator. Thus, we pursue a Bayesian approach using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method (see, e.g., Chib (2001), Koop (2003), Geweke (2005), and Gamerman and Lopes (2006)) for efficient estimation of the time-dependent GEV model.…”