FLOOD00764

• County: Statewide
• Community: Nationwide
• Title: Use of Extreme Value Theory in Estimating Flood Peaks from Mixed Populations
• Date: 2/1/1980
• Prepared By: Utah State University Water Research Laboratory
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Educational/Technical/Reference Information

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Program ORDER
Program INTEGRATE
Program FLOOD
Program PFHTS
Program EPROB
Program DEVIATION
Program MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD
Data Used in Analyses

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INTRODUCTION

EMPIRICAL FIT
EXTREME VALUE APPLICATION - HOMOGENEOUS DATA

Extreme Value Distribution
Determining Extreme Value Type
Estimation of Parameters .
Goodness-af-fit Comparisons .

EXTREME VALUE APPLICATION-NONHOMOGENEOUS DATA

Mixture Distributions in Hydrology
Estimation of Parameters .
Goodness-af-fit Nonhomogeneous Data

FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS PROCEDURE
CONCLUS IONS .

LITERATURE CITED
APPENDICES

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