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extraDistr (version 1.8.1)

GEV: Generalized extreme value distribution

Description

Density, distribution function, quantile function and random generation for the generalized extreme value distribution.

Usage

dgev(x, mu = 0, sigma = 1, xi = 0, log = FALSE)
pgev(q, mu = 0, sigma = 1, xi = 0, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
qgev(p, mu = 0, sigma = 1, xi = 0, lower.tail = TRUE, log.p = FALSE)
rgev(n, mu = 0, sigma = 1, xi = 0)

Arguments

x, q
vector of quantiles.
mu, sigma, xi
location, scale, and shape parameters. Scale must be positive.
log, log.p
logical; if TRUE, probabilities p are given as log(p).
lower.tail
logical; if TRUE (default), probabilities are $P[X \le x]$ otherwise, $P[X > x]$.
p
vector of probabilities.
n
number of observations. If length(n) > 1, the length is taken to be the number required.

Details

Probability density function $$ f(x) = \left\{\begin{array}{ll} \frac{1}{\sigma} \left(1-\xi \frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}\right)^{-1-1/\xi} \exp\left(-\left(1-\xi \frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}\right)^{-1/\xi}\right) & \xi \neq 0 \\ \frac{1}{\sigma} \exp\left(- \frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}\right) \exp\left(-\exp\left(- \frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}\right)\right) & \xi = 0 \end{array}\right. $$

Cumulative distribution function $$ F(x) = \left\{\begin{array}{ll} \exp\left(-\left(1+\xi \frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}\right)^{1/\xi}\right) & \xi \neq 0 \\ \exp\left(-\exp\left(- \frac{x-\mu}{\sigma}\right)\right) & \xi = 0 \end{array}\right. $$

Quantile function $$ F^{-1}(p) = \left\{\begin{array}{ll} \mu - \frac{\sigma}{\xi} (1 - (-\log(p))^\xi) & \xi \neq 0 \\ \mu - \sigma \log(-\log(p)) & \xi = 0 \end{array}\right. $$

References

Coles, S. (2001). An Introduction to Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values. Springer.

Examples

Run this code

x <- rgev(1e5, 5, 2, .5)
xx <- seq(0, 1000, by = 0.1)
hist(x, 1000, freq = FALSE, xlim = c(0, 50))
lines(xx, dgev(xx, 5, 2, .5), col = "red")
hist(pgev(x, 5, 2, .5))
plot(ecdf(x))
lines(xx, pgev(xx, 5, 2, .5), col = "red", lwd = 2)

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