The flood probability distribution tail: How heavy is it?

DOI10.1007/S00477-006-0101-2zbMATH Open1169.62395OpenAlexW2055501104WikidataQ58183628 ScholiaQ58183628MaRDI QIDQ841867FDOQ841867

Authors: Pietro Bernardara, Daniel Schertzer, Eric Sauquet, Ioulia Tchiguirinskaia, Michel Lang 

Publication date: 18 September 2009

Published in: Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00477-006-0101-2

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zbMATH Keywords

power lawheavy tailsasymptotic behaviourmultifractalscascadesflood frequency analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Time series, auto-correlation, regression, etc. in statistics (GARCH) (62M10) Statistics of extreme values; tail inference (62G32) Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics (62P12)

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• LMOMENTS
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