Tag: Gumbel
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The Gumbel Distribution, Extreme Rainfall, and the Euler–Mascheroni Constant
Nature doesn’t just have averages; it has extremes—the hottest day, the strongest wind, the largest daily rainfall, the highest flood. For extremes, a universal statistical law often appears: the Gumbel distribution. In this post, we meet it through a simple and realistic story about annual maximum rainfall, learn how a basic normalization makes its shape…
Michael Emmerich 