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Beta-\(\kappa \) distribution and its application to hydrologic events. (English) Zbl 1221.62027

Summary: The beta-\(\kappa \) distribution is a distinct case of the generalized beta distribution of the second kind. In previous studies, beta-\(p\) and beta-\(\kappa \) distributions have played important roles in representing extreme events, and thus, the present paper uses the beta-\(\kappa \) distribution. Further, this paper uses the method of moments and the method of L-moments to estimate the parameters from the beta-\(\kappa \) distribution, and to demonstrate the performance of the proposed model, the paper presents a simulation study using three estimation methods (including the maximum likelihood estimation method) and beta-\(\kappa \) and non beta-\(\kappa \) samples. In addition, this paper evaluates the performance of the beta-\(\kappa \) distribution by employing two widely used extreme value distributions (i.e., the GEV and Gumbel distributions) and two sets of actual data on extreme events.

MSC:

62E15 Exact distribution theory in statistics
62F10 Point estimation
62G32 Statistics of extreme values; tail inference
86A05 Hydrology, hydrography, oceanography
65C60 Computational problems in statistics (MSC2010)
86A32 Geostatistics
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