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- Title
Uncertainty Assessment of Hydrological Frequency Analysis Using Bootstrap Method.
- Authors
Yi-Ming Hu; Zhong-Min Liang; Bin-Quan Li; Zhong-Bo Yu
- Abstract
Thehydrological frequency analysis (HFA) is the foundation for the hydraulic engineering design and water resources management. Hydrological extreme observations or samples are the basis for HFA; the representativeness of a sample series to the population distribution is extremely important for the estimation reliability of the hydrological design value or quantile. However, for most of hydrological extreme data obtained in practical application, the size of the samples is usually small, for example, in China about 40~50 years. Generally, samples with small size cannot completely display the statistical properties of the population distribution, thus leading to uncertainties in the estimation of hydrological design values. In this paper, a new method based on bootstrap is put forward to analyze the impact of sampling uncertainty on the design value. By bootstrap resampling technique, a large number of bootstrap samples are constructed from the original flood extreme observations; the corresponding design value or quantile is estimated for each bootstrap sample, so that the sampling distribution of design value is constructed; based on the sampling distribution, the uncertainty of quantile estimation can be quantified. Compared with the conventional approach, this method provides not only the point estimation of a design value but also quantitative evaluation on uncertainties of the estimation.
- Subjects
FREQUENCIES of oscillating systems; HYDRAULIC engineering; SCIENTIFIC observation; ESTIMATION theory; RELIABILITY in engineering; STATISTICAL bootstrapping
- Publication
Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2013, p1
- ISSN
1024-123X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2013/724632