Although overdesign and underdesign losses vary with the length n of flood sequences, the choice of flood frequency distribution for estimating the design flood is not overly sensitive to n. Bias in the estimate of the design flood does not account for differences in the analytical forms of the underlying and optimal assumed distributions of floods.
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Wallis et al. (1976) studied this question.
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