TY - JOUR PY - 1982// TI - Properties of extreme order statistics and their application to fire protection and insurance problems JO - Fire safety journal A1 - Ramachandran, Gopinath SP - 59 EP - 76 VL - 5 IS - 1 N2 - In accident studies where data are available only for large events there are certain advantages in arranging the observations for damages in decreasing order of magnitude and applying the theory of extreme values to those ranked variables. This is illustrated in this paper with reference to fire protection and insurance problems. Statistical properties of extreme order statistics relevant to these studies are reviewed.This is based mainly on a paper prepared for the International Summer School on Statistical Distributions in Scientific Work, Trieste, Italy, 10 July - 1 August, 1980.

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