Author's reply to discussion of 'clock hour correction effect on extreme value analysis of rainfall on Western Coast of India'.

The article presents the discussion on indicating the limitations in application of maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). Topics include providing a short literature review on development of Anderson-Darling test as a model diagnostic tool for continuous probability distribution functions; and evaluation of the parameters of extreme value distributions such as graphical method, method of moments, order statistics approach, and maximum likelihood estimation (MLE).