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Original Articles

A comparison of L-, LQ-, TL-moment and maximum likelihood high quantile estimates of the GPD and GEV distribution

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Pages 5991-6010 | Received 10 Apr 2015, Accepted 04 May 2016, Published online: 17 Mar 2017

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