medium · Frm Part 2 Market Risk
A risk manager is fitting a Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution to the quarterly maximum losses of a portfolio.
If the estimated shape parameter ξ is found to be exactly zero, which specific distribution type does the model represent?
- Frechet Distribution
- Generalized Pareto Distribution
- Gumbel Distribution
- Weibull Distribution
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