Talk:Return period

return period is used for more than for floods

I'm currently researching wind return period. I'm no expert so I leave it for others to remain open when writing.Mbubel 16:00, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Both USGS & FEMA use Return Period Calculations Refs needed.

USGS - Return Period (recurrence interval) Calculation Examples & Refs needed dond (talk) 16:18, 28 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

USGS 100 year flood ^[1] USGS FS-229-96 ^[2] USGS Bulletin 17B ^[3]

The math in the Poisson distribution example seems wrong. First, mu = 0.0043 = 1/233, not 1/243. Second, the ending value of 0.958 seems to come from 1 minus the value of the formulae given. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.190.238.122 (talk) 23:05, 6 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Variance of the return period

Can someone please add such a section? Thank you. Imagine Reason (talk) 12:49, 31 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I won't my order is return

I won't my order is returned 2409:4088:CE42:393A:0:0:7E0A:7614 (talk) 10:43, 14 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttp://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/100yearflood.html

[2] ttp://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/FS-229-96/

[3] ttp://water.usgs.gov/osw/bulletin17b/bulletin_17B.html

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