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. 2017 Jul 13;96(1):012313. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.96.012313

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FIG. 10. — A properly chosen three-parameter lognormal distribution can closely approximate (a) a Gumbel distribution or (b) a convolution of two Gumbel distributions. The parameters in these lognormals were chosen to fit the first three moments of the Gumbel or Gumbel+Gumbel distributions.