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STATISTICAL ESTIMATION METHODS FOR EXTREME HYDROLOGICAL EVENTS

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Extreme Hydrological Events: New Concepts for Security

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Abstract- In this paper an overview is given of the statistical methods which are needed to analyse observed environmetric data with a particular interest for the extreme values. The methods for trend analysis, stationarity tests, seasonality analysis, long-memory studies will be presented, critically reviewed, applied to some existing datasets, and compared.

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    P.H.A.J.M. van Gelder, W. WANG & J. K. VRIJLING

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van Gelder, P., WANG, W., VRIJLING, J.K. (2006). STATISTICAL ESTIMATION METHODS FOR EXTREME HYDROLOGICAL EVENTS. In: Vasiliev, O., van Gelder, P., Plate, E., Bolgov, M. (eds) Extreme Hydrological Events: New Concepts for Security. NATO Science Series, vol 78. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5741-0_15

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