Kragujevac J. Math. 25 (2003) 19-29.

A GENERALIZATION OF THE GUMBEL DISTRIBUTION

Shola Adeyemi and Mathew Oladejo Ojo

Department of Mathematics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

(Received January 7, 2003)

Abstract. We propose as a generalization of the Gumbel distribution, the asymptotic distribution of m-th extremes obtained by (Gumbel,1934). Some of its properties are obtained. A t-approximation to its cumulative ditsribution function is also proposed.