Automated threshold selection methods for extreme wave analysis

Coastal Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1013-1021

  Thompson, Paul ^a   Cai, Yuzhi ^a   Reeve, Dominic ^a   Stander, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Covariate dependent thresholds; Distribution with Generalized Pareto tail; Generalized Pareto Distribution; GPD; JOINSEA; Return level confidence intervals

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAP; COVARIATE DEPENDENT THRESHOLDS; DISTRIBUTION WITH GENERALIZED PARETO TAIL; GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTION; GPD; JOINSEA; RETURN LEVEL CONFIDENCE INTERVALS;

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

AUTOMATION; BOOTSTRAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; SOFTWARE; THRESHOLD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WAVE HEIGHT;

EID: 68349139569     PISSN: 03783839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2009.06.003     Document Type: Article

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