A comparative review of generalizations of the Gumbel extreme value distribution with an application to wind speed data

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2241-2261

  Pinheiro, Eliane C ^a   Ferrari, Silvia L P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Generalized extreme value distribution; Gumbel distribution; heavy tailed distribution; kurtosis; non identifiable model; wind speed

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946429912     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: 15635163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949655.2015.1107909     Document Type: Article

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