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Fitting extreme value distributions to the Zambezi River flood water levels recorded at Katima Mulilo in Namibia (1965-2003)

>Magister Scientiae - MSc / This study sought to identify and fit the appropriate extreme value distribution to
flood data, using the method of maximum likelihood. To examine the uncertainty of
the estimated parameters and evaluate the goodness of fit of the model identified. The
study revealed that the three parameter Weibull and the generalised extreme value
(GEV) distributions fit the data very well. Standard errors for the estimated
parameters were calculated from the empirical information matrix. An upper limit to
the flood levels followed from the fitted distribution.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/8806
Date January 2005
CreatorsKamwi, Innocent Silibelo
ContributorsKoen, Chris, Blignaut, Renette J
PublisherUniversity of the Western Cape
Source SetsSouth African National ETD Portal
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
RightsUniversity of the Western Cape

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