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SERIES C
Applied Statistics

Extremal analysis of short series with outliers: sea-levels and athletics records, by M. I. Barão and J. A. Tawn, Volume 48 (1999)

The data for the applications which are studied in the paper are in the files Tawnsea.txt and Tawnath.txt.

Tawnsea.txt contains the annual maximum sea-level data. The columns are, from left to right, the year followed by the maximum sea-levels (in metres) for Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft, Harwich, Walton, Holland, Southend and Sheerness respectively.

Tawnath.txt contains the women's athletics annual best times data. The columns are the year followed by the times (in seconds) for the 1500 m and 3000 m races.

For further details contact:

Jonathan Tawn
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YF
UK
E-mail: j.tawn@lancaster.ac.uk

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