An Accurate Approximation to the Sampling Distribution of the Studentized Extreme Value Statistic

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.The principal result of this paper is the discovery of an excellent approximation to the sampling distribution of the statistic used in the construction of Weibull tolerance bounds. The approximation is compared over a wide range of cases to Monte Carlo results and to two other recently derived approximations. In no case has it been found to be deficient. KEY WORDS Weibull tolerance bounds Approximate tolerance boundsThis content downloaded from 137.

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