Fitting extreme value distributions to the Zambezi river flood water levels recorded at Katima Mulilo in Namibia

dc.contributor.advisor	Koen, C
dc.contributor.advisor	Blignaut, Renette
dc.contributor.author	Kamwi, Innocent Silibelo
dc.contributor.other	Dept. of Statistics
dc.contributor.other	Faculty of Science
dc.date.accessioned	2013-08-07T11:20:19Z
dc.date.available	2007/04/20 12:59
dc.date.available	2007/04/20
dc.date.available	2013-08-07T11:20:19Z
dc.date.issued	2005
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11394/1834
dc.description	Magister Scientiae - MSc	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The aim of this research project was to estimate parameters for the distribution of annual maximum flood levels for the Zambezi River at Katima Mulilo. The estimation of parameters was done by using the maximum likelihood method. The study aimed to explore data of the Zambezi's annual maximum flood heights at Katima Mulilo by means of fitting the Gumbel, Weibull and the generalized extreme value distributions and evaluated their goodness of fit.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	University of the Western Cape	en_US
dc.subject	Floods	en_US
dc.subject	Mathematical models	en_US
dc.subject	Flood forecasting	en_US
dc.subject	Stream measurements	en_US
dc.subject	Extreme value theory	en_US
dc.title	Fitting extreme value distributions to the Zambezi river flood water levels recorded at Katima Mulilo in Namibia	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
dc.rights.holder	University of the Western Cape	en_US
dc.description.country	South Africa