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To: lurqer who wrote (28060)	9/18/2003 2:31:04 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

who knows on SIGMAs ? just for added info, my doctoral probability & statistics thesis was on multi-dimensional extreme value theory extended a Russian's work, some guy named Gnedenko in one dimension, extreme value statistics are the MINIMUM and the MAXIMUM e.g. take a sample at a downtown office pavillion of men's heights the tallest person's height and the shortest person's height are the MIN and MAX these are extremes e.g. take husband and wife heights now you are on different ground since more than one reading you can talk about the MIN and MAX of husbands and the MIN and MAX of wives but also the tallest combined height, and shortest combined height husband height might be on the X-axis wife height on the Y-axis combined height is represented by projections onto the 45-degree angle direction my work extended this whole scheme into multiple dimensions it might sound abstruce and arcane, but it turned out to open up a new body of probability theory 3-4 other guys marched thru the path I laid out, and extended the work into nifty directions all at Carnegie Mellon Univ (where the homosexual meet the asexual -- I was a rare hetero) "The Asymptotic Distribution of the Convex Hull from a Spherically Symmetric Random Sample" CMU, 1980 so extreme value theory piques my interest always I believe we have seen 15 extreme events since 1980 the common denominator is "post 1971" when Nixon defaulted on the gold-backed dollar more extreme events coming each and every year Fanny Mae implosion is tops on my eventual list / jinm