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MomEst: Estimation of the GEV parameters by the Method of Moments

Description

Using the moment estimator, the function returns the parameter estimates of the generalized extreme value distribution for a given dataset of extreme values.

Usage

MomEst(data, n)

Arguments

data

A vector of extreme values.

n

The number of observations.

Value

The returned object is a list with:

location

The location estimate.

scale

The scale estimate.

shape

The shape estimate.

References

de Haan, L. and Ferreira, A. (2006) Extreme Value Theory An Introduction. Springer Verlang, New York.

See Also

GevLogLik, FitGev