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Does dropping multiple low outliers improve the estimate of the 100-year flood at the expense of distorting the estimates of the lower-recurrence-interval (10, 20, 50-year) floods?

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Does dropping multiple low outliers improve the estimate of the 100-year flood at the expense of distorting the estimates of the lower-recurrence-interval (10, 20, 50-year) floods?

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No. The intent and the result of the low outlier adjustment are to improve the fit of the entire frequency curve above the low-outlier threshold.

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