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

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.

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