Hi, You assumed
scale=229678.21 and shape=0.41 and the procedure estimated \hat{scale}=427196.6 and \hat{shape}=0.2092887 I think these estimates are natural, since 1) you use a simulated generated data with n=100, and 2) the true value your scale parameter is very large. Hope this helps Best Ozgur -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/POT-Package-tp4632055p4632065.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.