Category:Extreme Value Distributions
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This category contains results about Extreme Value Distributions.
Definitions specific to this category can be found in Definitions/Extreme Value Distributions.
An extreme value distribution is a probability distribution associated with the smallest and greatest values of order statistics in a sample.
Such a distribution is useful for:
- assessing the risk of the occurrence of an unlikely event, for example:
- floods exceeding a certain height
- a ship colliding with a bridge
- estimating an earliest likely failure time.
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