gumbel.gp {weibullness}

Estimate of location and scale parameters of the Gumbel distribution

Description

Calculates the estimates of the location and scale parameters fromn the Gumbel probability plot.

Usage

gumbel.gp(x, n, a)

Arguments

x

a numeric vector of observations.

n

The number of observations is needed if there is right-censoring.

a

the offset fraction to be used; typically in (0,1). See ppoints.

Details

gumbel.gp obtains the estimates of the location and scale parameters using the intercept and slope estimates from the Gumbel probability plot.

Value

An object of class "gumbel.estimate", a list with two parameter estimates

Author(s)

Chanseok Park

See Also

weibull.wp for the parameter estimation using the Weibull plot.

Examples

x = c(-2.73, 11.69, 34.85, 7.97, -0.86, 17.46, 9.69, -7.14, 14.86, 16.85)
gumbel.gp(x)