Evaluation of frequency distributions for flood hazard analysis
By: Wilbert O. Thomas Jr., Minoru Kuriki, and Tadashi Suetsugi
Edited by: Espey William H.Combs Phil G.
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Abstract
Many different frequency distributions and fitting methods are used to determine the magnitude and frequency of floods and rainfall. Ten different combinations of frequency distributions and fitting methods are evaluated by summarizing the differences in the 0.002 exceedance probability quantile (500-year event), presenting graphical displays of the 10 estimates of the 0.002 quantile, and performing statistical tests to determine if differences are statistically significant. This evaluation indicated there are some statistically significant differences among the methods but, from an engineering standpoint, these differences may not be significant.
| Publication type | Conference Paper |
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| Publication Subtype | Conference Paper |
| Title | Evaluation of frequency distributions for flood hazard analysis |
| Volume | 1 |
| Year Published | 1995 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | ASCE |
| Publisher location | New York, NY, United States |
| Larger Work Title | International Water Resources Engineering Conference - Proceedings |
| First page | 124 |
| Last page | 128 |
| Conference Title | Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Water Resources. Part 1 (of 2) |
| Conference Location | San Antonio, TX, USA |
| Conference Date | 14 August 1995 through 18 August 1995 |
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