Ultimate 100-m world records through extreme-value theory

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-42

  Einmahl, John H J ^a   Smeets, Sander G W R ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b AZL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

100 m running; Endpoint estimation; Statistics of extremes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251517124     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: 14679574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.2010.00470.x     Document Type: Article

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