Bringing Closure to the Plotting Position Controversy

DOI10.1080/03610920701653094MaRDI QIDQ5457974zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lasse Makkonen

Publication date 10 April 2008

Published in Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03610920701653094

zbMATH Keywords

cumulative distribution functionextreme value analysisorder rankingplotting positionsprobability paper

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Statistics of extreme values; tail inference (62G32)

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(8)

• A new unbiased plotting position formula for Gumbel distribution
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• Minimal-maximal correlation-type goodness-of-fit tests

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Uses Software

• ismev

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