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Many studies have demonstrated that the distribution of similarity scores assumes a peculiar shape that resembles a highly skewed normal distribution with a long tail on one side. The distribution matches the _______(a) Gumble elective value distribution(b) Gumble extreme void distribution(c) Gumble end value distribution(d) Gumble extreme value distributionI got this question in an interview for internship.The doubt is from Statistical Significance of Sequence Alignment topic in portion Pairwise Sequence Alignment of Bioinformatics

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Right answer is (d) Gumble extreme value distribution

To explain I WOULD say: The mentioned Distribution PATTERN matches the Gumble extreme value distribution for which a mathematical expression is AVAILABLE. This means that, given a sequence SIMILARITY value, by using the mathematical formula for the extreme distribution, the statistical SIGNIFICANCE can be accurately estimated.



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