Ecological Archives M079-014-A2

Mark W. Denny, Luke J. H. Hunt, Luke P. Miller, and Christopher D. G. Harley. 2009. On the prediction of extreme ecological events. Ecological Monographs 79:397–421.

Appendix B. Translating the generalized extreme value distribution.

Eq. 14 in the main text is one form of the generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution. Coles (2001) and Katz et al. (2005) use an equivalent form:

equation B1
(B.1)

Table B1 gives the equivalencies required to translate between Eq. 14 and Eq. B1. Note that the symbol σ in Eq. B1 has no connection to the use of this symbol in this study, it is used here solely to ease translation between published forms of the GEV.

LITERATURE CITED

Coles, S. T. 2001. An introduction to statistical modeling of extreme values. Springer–Verlag. London, UK, 208 pp.

Katz, R. W., G. S. Brush, and M. B. Parlange. 2005. Statistics of extremes: Modeling ecological disturbances. Ecology 86:1124–1134.

 

TABLE B1. The equivalencies required to translate between Eq. 14 in the text and and Eq. B1 used by Coles (2001) and Katz et al. (2005).

Table B1
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