venice {evd}

Largest Sea Levels in Venice

Description

The venice data frame has 51 rows and 10 columns. The jth column contains the jth largest sea levels in Venice, for the years 1931–1981. Only the largest six measurements are available for the year 1935; the corresponding row contains four missing values. The years for each set of measurements are given as row names. A larger version of this data is available in the dataset venice2.

Usage

venice

Format

A data frame with 51 rows and 10 columns.

Source

Smith, R. L. (1986) Extreme value theory based on the r largest annual events. Journal of Hydrology, 86, 27–43.

References

Coles, S. G. (2001) An Introduction to Statistical Modeling of Extreme Values. London: Springer-Verlag.