Barry J. Azzopardi
Department of Chemical, Environmental and Mining Engineering, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England
S. Hibberd
Theoretical Mechanics, University of Nottingham, England
The problem of identifying the size of the largest drop in a population from a sample of finite size is addressed. Using the statistics of extremes, the dependence of the observed maximum with sample size is explained and a methodology for determining the maximum in the population is proposed.