At 10:53 AM 1/21/00 +0000, you wrote:
>In the 1983 Guinness Book of World Records under OCEANS, the following
>appears concerning the heights of waves:
>"It has been calculated on the statistics of the Stationary Random theory
>that one wave in more than 300,000 may exceed the average by a factor of 4."
>
>What is a reference on Stationary Random statistical theory?
>What assumptions are involved in modeling random interactions of waves?
>What is the sampling distribution for the heights of "random" waves?
For the latter question, you might check out the literature on extreme
value theory, such as Castillo's book "Extreme value theory in engineering"
(1988 I believe, but I don't know the publisher). There's a good but
scattered geomorphometry literature on the occurrence of extreme
earthquakes, floods, waves, etc.
Rich Strauss
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Texas Tech University
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