THE STUDY OF FLOOD FREQUENCY ESTIMATES USING CAUCHY VARIABLE KERNEL

  • Moon, Young-Il (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Seoul) ;
  • Cha, Young-Il (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Seoul) ;
  • Ashish Sharma (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sidney, Australia)
  • 발행 : 2001.01.01

초록

The frequency analyses for the precipitation data in Korea were performed. We used daily maximum series, monthly maximum series, and annual series. For nonparametric frequency analyses, variable kernel estimators were used. Nonparametric methods do not require assumptions about the underlying populations from which the data are obtained. Therefore, they are better suited for multimodal distributions with the advantage of not requiring a distributional assumption. In order to compare their performance with parametric distributions, we considered several probability density functions. They are Gamma, Gumbel, Log-normal, Log-Pearson type III, Exponential, Generalized logistic, Generalized Pareto, and Wakeby distributions. The variable kernel estimates are comparable and are in the middle of the range of the parametric estimates. The variable kernel estimates show a very small probability in extrapolation beyond the largest observed data in the sample. However, the log-variable kernel estimates remedied these defects with the log-transformed data.

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