Thank you to all who offered help (see original question below). The most
useful information came from John Maindonald who pointed out that this
distribution is used in the extreme value theory.
Thank you !
Leonid
> From: "Gibiansky, Leonid" <gibianskyl@globomax.com>
> To: "splus (E-mail)" <s-news@wubios.wustl.edu>
> Subject: [S] log(-log x) distribution
> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 07:52:09 -0500
>
> Dear All,
> Could you, please, help with the stat question: I have a data set Xi such
> that log(-log Xi) is normally distributed. What can be said about the Xi
> distribution ? Is it one of the known ones, and if yes, what kind of
process
> leads to such distribution ?
> Thanks
> Leonid
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