Approximating Catastrophic Risk Through Statistics of Extremes

JAMES MITSIOPOULOS, YACOV Y. HAIMES, DUAN LI

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Abstract

This paper studies the approximation of the partitioned multiobjective risk method's (PMRM) extreme‐event risk function ƒ4. The analytic expression of the approximation for ƒ4 is derived through the use of the statistics of extremes for cases where the underlying distribution is of an extreme‐value type I, II, or III, and it thus provides an effective theoretical tool for understanding the behavior of conditional expected values for a large class of distribution functions used in science and engineering. The results are confirmed for example problems of normal, Gumbel, Weibull, Pareto, lognormal, and uniform distributions.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1223-1230
JournalWater Resources Research
Volume27
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 1991
Externally publishedYes

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