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A new flood frequency methodology has been developed and computerized. It detects objectively the outliers and inliers at various significance levels and modifies them if needed. Six significance levels, 1 through 6 (corresponding to outlierinlier probability pairs 0.01, 0.99; 0.05, 0.95; 0.1, 0.9; 0.2, 0.8; 0.3, 0.7; and 0.4, 0.6), are defined in addition to the level 0 which corresponds to processing of data without any testing for outliers/inliers. The computer program prints 2-to 1000-year floods from normal distributions after power transformation, both with and without kurtosis correction; from log-Pearson type III distributions, with sample skew and weighted skew; and from mixed distributions (Singh and Sinclair, 1972; Singh and Nakashima, 1981).
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Singh, K.P. (1983). Software Design for a Versatile Flood Frequency Analysis. In: Adey, R.A. (eds) Engineering Software III. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02335-8_8
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