Abstract: In this paper we present algorithms based on the acceptance-rejection (A-R), and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to draw samples from Halphen distributions. Quantiles computed with these generating techniques are compared ...

Abstract: Statistical criteria used to evaluate the best distribution fit give large weights to the center of distributions. This is, however, not consistent with the objective of frequency analysis which is to estimate the quantiles ...

Abstract: In flood frequency analysis (FFA), the adequate choice of distribution to fit data is a major problem. The three-parameter lognormal (LN3) distribution has an intermediate tail behavior between the distributions of the ...

Abstract: Modeling of extreme events is important in many scientific fields, including environmental and civil engineering, and impacts and risk assessments. Among available methods, statistical models that allow estimating extremes’ ...