COMPARATWE EVALUATION OF FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS FOR LOUISIANA EXTREME RAINFALL1 Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • ABSTRACT: A comparative study of five popular frequency distributions and three parameter estimation methods was conducted by using 92 Louisiana rainfall data sets. Computed results showed that the logPearson type 3 (LPEAR3) distribution was the most appropriate probability distribution for the Louisiana rainfall data. Furthermore, the method of moments was found to be the best estimation method for the LPEAR3 distribution based on descriptive performance indices. A firstorder error analysis was performed on the parameters of the LPEAR3 distribution. Computed results showed that the predicted quantiles of the LPEAR3 distribution were most sensitive to the population mean and relatively insensitive to the coefficient of the skewness of the distribution. Copyright 1993, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved

published proceedings

  • JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association

author list (cited authors)

  • Naghavi, B., Yu, F. X., & Singh, V. P.

citation count

  • 10

complete list of authors

  • Naghavi, Babak||Yu, Fang Xin||Singh, Vijay P

publication date

  • April 1993

publisher