The Fréchet distribution, also known as inverse Weibull distribution,[2][3] is a special case of the generalized extreme value distribution. It has the cumulative distribution function
Especially for the 3-parameter Fréchet, the first quartile is and the third quartile
Also the quantiles for the mean and mode are:
Applications
In hydrology, the Fréchet distribution is applied to extreme events such as annually maximum one-day rainfalls and river discharges.[4] The blue picture, made with CumFreq, illustrates an example of fitting the Fréchet distribution to ranked annually maximum one-day rainfalls in Oman showing also the 90% confidence belt based on the binomial distribution. The cumulative frequencies of the rainfall data are represented by plotting positions as part of the cumulative frequency analysis.
However, in most hydrological applications, the distribution fitting is via the generalized extreme value distribution as this avoids imposing the assumption that the distribution does not have a lower bound (as required by the Frechet distribution). [citation needed]
One test to assess whether a multivariate distribution is asymptotically dependent or independent consists of transforming the data into standard Fréchet margins using the transformation and then mapping from Cartesian to pseudo-polar coordinates . Values of correspond to the extreme data for which at least one component is large while approximately 1 or 0 corresponds to only one component being extreme.
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