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From: Andrew Sutton (asutton_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-16 15:18:09


>>> So you can call it whatever you like and still be right :-)
>>>
>>> BTW I believe the min and max cases are basically just mirror
>>> images of each
>>> other about the location parameter?
>>
>> So names aside, it's all the extreme value distribution, but there
>> are minimum and maximum variations of it.

I found this... It was a nice overview of some of the distribution.
Section 1.2 has a nice overview of the type 1, 2 and 3 distributions
and how they relate (and how they're related to Weibull, for
example). I wonder if I can find this book in our math library...

http://www.worldscibooks.com/mathematics/p191.html

Andrew Sutton
asutton_at_[hidden]


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