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J. R. M. Hosking, Algorithm AS 215: Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of the Parameters of the Generalized Extreme-Value Distribution, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C (Applied Statistics), Vol. 34, No. 3 (1985), pp. 301-310
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