Internal function that computes GEV MLE using both constrained optimization (solnp) and ismev::gev.fit, selects the better fit, and returns the covariance matrix for delta method SE.
gev.rl.delta(data, ntry = 5, quant)A list containing:
Negative log-likelihood
MLE estimates (mu, sigma, xi) in Hosking style
Quantile estimates at quant probabilities
Input data
3x3 covariance matrix from MLE
Input quantile probabilities
Numeric vector of data.
Number of optimization attempts. Default is 5.
Numeric vector of probabilities for quantile estimation.