Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers Creation-Date: 1998-03-23 Number: 98-035/4 Author-Name: Laurens F.M. de Haan Author-Email: ldehaan@few.eur.nl Author-Workplace-Name: Erasmus University Rotterdam Title: Approximation by Penultimate Extreme Value Distributions Abstract: In certain cases the distribution of the normalized maximumof a sample can be better approximated by a sequence ofdifferent extreme value distributions than by the final one. Weshow that these cases are rather restricted and that the possibleimprovement is not spectacular. File-Url: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/98035.pdf File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 205856 bytes Handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:19980035