Regional Frequency Analysis
An Approach Based on L-Moments
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- Authors:
- J. R. M. Hosking, IBM T J Watson Research Center, New York
- James R. Wallis
- Date Published: September 2005
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521019408
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Extreme environmental events, such as floods, droughts, rainstorms, and high winds, have severe consequences for human society. Regional frequency analysis helps to solve the problem of estimating the frequency of these rare events at one site by using data from several sites. This book is the first complete account of the L-moment approach to regional frequency analysis. Regional Frequency Analysis comprehensively describes the theoretical background to the subject, is rich in practical advice for users, and contains detailed examples that illustrate the approach. This book will be of great value to hydrologists, atmospheric scientists and civil engineers, concerned with environmental extremes.
Read more- Discusses statistical topics rarely dealt with in statistical texts for engineers and environmental scientists
- Provides a comprehensive analysis of results that previously were scattered among various papers and journals
- For researchers, professionals and graduate students
Reviews & endorsements
"...well written with cogency and engineering examples." Ramalingam Shanmugam, University of Colorado, Denver
See more reviews"...a well written, complete description of an important method of estimating the frequency of extreme hydrologic events. Students in environmental statistics should read this book to gain insight into the practical side of statistics. Hydrologists, engineers, and statisticians concerned with overcoming some of the difficulties in frequency analysis often encountered in environmental studies will find this book well worth the price and should include it in their libraries." Gary Tasker, JASA
"This book is recommended for researchers in atmospheric and hydrolowgical sciences for its careful approach to frequency analysis, its good introduction to L-movements, and its comprehensive appendix." Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics
"The book is an excellent treatise on a practical approach...Hosking and Wallis have described a complex subject in a simple and logical manner that can be understood by both the layman and the expert....I highly recommend this book for all analysis not only for the L-moment approach, but for practical, conceptual, and philosophical concerns that are inherent to all analyses of environmental data." Nathaniel B. Guttman
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- Date Published: September 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521019408
- length: 244 pages
- dimensions: 260 x 182 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.646kg
- contains: 72 b/w illus. 44 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Regional frequency analysis
2. L-moments
3. Screening the data
4. Identification of homogeneous regions
5. Choice of a frequency distribution
6. Estimation of the frequency distribution
7. Performance of the regional L-moment algorithm
8. Other topics
9. Examples
Appendix
References
Index of notation.
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