“…Similarly, the authors of this paper have also previously used different statistical approaches to estimate better extreme statistical values such as, i.e. wind speed, wave height, response and load [ [1] , [2] , [3] , [4] , [5] , [6] , [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] , [11] , [12] , [13] , [14] , [15] , [16] , [17] , [18] , [19] , [20] , [21] , [22] , [23] , [24] , [25] , [26] ]. Furthermore, the authors developed a novel reliability approach to forecast COVID-19 epidemic levels, indicating the approach's versatility and reliability in various fields [ 14 , 16 , 26 ].…”