The Three Extreme Value Distributions: An Introductory Review

The statistical distribution of the largest value drawn from a sample of a given size has only three possible shapes: it is either a Weibull, a Fréchet or a Gumbel extreme value distributions. I describe in this short review how to relate the statistical distribution followed by the numbers in the s...

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Main Author: Alex Hansen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Physics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphy.2020.604053/full