Selection of the best fit flood frequency distribution and parameter estimation procedure: a case study for Tasmania in Australia |
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| Authors: | Khaled Haddad Ataur Rahman |
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| Institution: | (1) School of Engineering, University of Western Sydney, Penrith South, NSW, 1797, Australia; |
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| Abstract: | Selection of a flood frequency distribution and associated parameter estimation procedure is an important step in flood frequency
analysis. This is however a difficult task due to problems in selecting the best fit distribution from a large number of candidate
distributions and parameter estimation procedures available in the literature. This paper presents a case study with flood
data from Tasmania in Australia, which examines four model selection criteria: Akaike Information Criterion (AIC), Akaike
Information Criterion—second order variant (AICc), Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) and a modified Anderson–Darling Criterion (ADC). It has been found from the Monte
Carlo simulation that ADC is more successful in recognizing the parent distribution correctly than the AIC and BIC when the
parent is a three-parameter distribution. On the other hand, AIC and BIC are better in recognizing the parent distribution
correctly when the parent is a two-parameter distribution. From the seven different probability distributions examined for
Tasmania, it has been found that two-parameter distributions are preferable to three-parameter ones for Tasmania, with Log
Normal appears to be the best selection. The paper also evaluates three most widely used parameter estimation procedures for
the Log Normal distribution: method of moments (MOM), method of maximum likelihood (MLE) and Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo
method (BAY). It has been found that the BAY procedure provides better parameter estimates for the Log Normal distribution,
which results in flood quantile estimates with smaller bias and standard error as compared to the MOM and MLE. The findings
from this study would be useful in flood frequency analyses in other Australian states and other countries in particular,
when selecting an appropriate probability distribution from a number of alternatives. |
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