Probability-weighted moments without plotting position formula

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 89-91

  Haktanir, Tefaruk ^a,b  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

GENERAL EXTREME VALUES DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY WEIGHTED MOMENT METHODS;

FLOODS;

PWMS;

EID: 0030112411     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(1996)1:2(89)     Document Type: Article

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