The major point worth noticing about this distribution is the extent to which it is skewed right. A z-score of 6 in the context of a Normal distribution is associated with an extremely small probability, while in the context of the extreme value distribution it may not be worth our attention. If you've already received some training in statistics then this is a point worth watching out for when doing real genome database searches.

And this about completes this section.

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