There are essentially three types of Fisher-Tippett extreme value distributions. The most common is the type I distribution, which are sometimes referred to as Gumbel types or just Gumbel distributions. These are distributions of an extreme order statistic for a distribution of N elements X_i. More @Wikipedia
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