Smoothing of samples for maxima

Authors
Mittal, Yashaswini
Citation
Mittal, Yashaswini, Smoothing of samples for maxima, Annals of statistics , 9(1), 1981, pp. 66-77
Journal title
Annals of statistics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00905364
Volume
9
Issue
1
Year of publication
1981
Pages
66 - 77
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
Smoothing of the data by averaging is suggested in order to study the maximum. The maximum of the smoothed data is approximated by that of a Gaussian sample and thus is more robust against outliers.