DIAMOND Mark R. wrote: > Thank you. ... back to the library. > > -- > Mark R. Diamond > > > "Eric Bohlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> "DIAMOND Mark R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> The term you're looking for is "order statistics." A search on that > should >> be fruitful.
I guess you are looking more for extreme values and order statistics. The classical text about application of extremes, now outdated a little bit is by E.J.Gumbel: Statistics of extremes, 1958. A newer book (but harder maths) is by: Leadbetter, Lindgren and Rootzen, Eytremes and related properties of random sequences and processes, Springer, 1983. There are books with a computer package called Xtremes by R-D. Reiss and coauthors for analysis of such data. Another package is from the University of Lund http://www.maths.lth.se/matstat/wafo/ This is more for processes, but the literature given there in the downloadable tutorials might help you much. There is also a journal calles "Extremes". I do not know how deep you want to enter the mathematics of this, depends on your problem, if I know it more precisely, naybe I can give you a better hint. Ciao Karl Breitung . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
