Postscript to "Exact and general FT1 penultimate distributions of extreme wind speeds drawn from tail-equivalent Weibull parents"

Structural Safety

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-10

  Cook, Nicholas J ^a   Harris, R Ian ^a  

^a ROWAN WILLIAMS DAVIES AND IRWIN INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymptotic models; Disjoint distributions; Exponential distribution; Extreme wind speeds; Extreme value statistics; Jenkinson Lamb index; Parent wind speeds; Penultimate distributions; Storm maxima; Weibull distribution; Wind engineering

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; STATISTICS; STORMS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

DISJOINT DISTRIBUTION; JENKINSON-LAMB INDEX; WIND ENGINEERING; WIND SPEED;

WIND EFFECTS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; STATISTICS; STORMS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 34548545378     PISSN: 01674730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strusafe.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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