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Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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352
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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IMS
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| Abstract - #301454 |
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Title:
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Are Floods Increasing? An Analysis of Downtown Atlanta's Peachtree Creek
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Author(s):
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Chris O'Neal*+ and William P. McCormick and Lynne Seymour
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Companies:
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University of Georgia and University of Georgia and University of Georgia
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Address:
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Department of Statistics, Athens, GA, 30605,
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Keywords:
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Regular Variation ;
Extreme Value Theory ;
Annual Maximum
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Abstract:
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We derive an asymptotic distribution for the maximum of a time-dependent series of regularly varying random variables. The choice of normalizing constants is discussed, and simulation results illustrate the effectiveness of this approximation. We also test the formula on the annual maximum gage heights from the Peachtree Creek in Atlanta.
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