venice2 {evd}

Largest Sea Levels in Venice

Description

The venice2 data frame has 125 rows and 10 columns. The data was kindly provided by Anthony Davison. The jth column contains the jth largest sea levels in Venice, for the years 1887–2011. This is a larger version of the dataset venice. Only the largest six measurements are available for the year 1935, and only the largest is available for 1922; the corresponding rows contain missing values. The years for each set of measurements are given as row names.

Usage

venice2

Format

A data frame with 125 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.