Link Gubmel/Gompertz/Fisher-Tippett posts so resolution is easier to find.
authorW. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:36:33 +0000 (09:36 -0500)
committerW. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:36:33 +0000 (09:36 -0500)
posts/Giving_up_on_Gompertz_theory.mdwn
posts/Gumbel-Fisher-Tippett_distributions.mdwn

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@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ I now have a heuristic which seems to work :p, and I suppose I'll be satisfied w
 
 On to find out about analytic solutions to Kramers' unfolding rates.
 
-Update: I found a better [reference][] while writing my [[sawsim]]
-paper, listing the mean and standard deviation of the Gumbel
-distribution.  So many names...  Anyway, the `pysawsim` tests now use
-the [improved guessing procedure][].
+Update: I figured out how to use the [NIST reference][] while writing
+my [[sawsim]] paper, listing the mean and standard deviation of the
+Gumbel distribution.  So many names...  Anyway, the `pysawsim` tests
+now use the [improved guessing procedure][].
 
-[reference]: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda366g.htm
+[NIST reference]: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda366g.htm
 [improved guessing procedure]: http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~wking/code/git/gitweb.cgi?p=sawsim.git;a=blob;f=pysawsim/test/bell_rate.py;hb=837c425eaeccae280cc7f7784d03dfcfcb03678c#l106
 
 [[!tag tags/sawsim]]
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@@ -17,5 +17,11 @@ But Wikipedia says this is the same as Fisher-Tippett with time inversion.
 
 There is a nice discussion of aging in general, but not much math [here](http://longevity-science.org/Failure-Models-2006.pdf).
 
+Update: Related posts:
+
+* [[Gompertz-Gumbel distributions|Gompertz-Gumbel_distributions]]
+* [[Gompertz paper'|Gompertz_paper]]
+* [[Giving up on Gompertz theory]]
+
 [[!tag tags/theory]]
 [[!tag tags/sawsim]]