ESTIMATING ERROR OF COASTAL STAGE FREQUENCY CURVES
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Keywords

frequency curve
error
error estimation

How to Cite

Prater, M. D., Hardy, T. A., Butler, H. L., & Borgman, L. E. (1984). ESTIMATING ERROR OF COASTAL STAGE FREQUENCY CURVES. Coastal Engineering Proceedings, 1(19), 11. https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v19.11

Abstract

A computer intensive statistical procedure known as the bootstrap has been used to estimate the error in coastal stage-frequency relationships due to uncertainties in hurricane meteorological distributions. These stage-frequency relationships are developed through the use of a joint probability method, so that the probability of a storm event is the product of the probabilities of the individual independent components which comprise that storm event. The bootstrap technique provides an estimate of the error of the stage-frequency by determining the variation possible in each component's probability distribution. This variability is due to the construction of the distribution from a finite set of historical events. An example of the bootstrap is given and stage frequency results and error estimates typical of a coastal region are shown.
https://doi.org/10.9753/icce.v19.11
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