Using partial probability weighted moments to fit the extreme value distributions to censored samples

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1767-1771

  Wang, Q J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHOD;

FLOODS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

FLOOD RETURN PERIOD; PROBABILITY WEIGHTED MOMENT;

EID: 0029663972     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR00352     Document Type: Article

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