Generalized least squares and empirical Bayes estimation in regional partial duration series index-flood modeling

Water Resources Research

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 771-781

  Madsen, Henrik ^a,b   Rosbjerg, Dan ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b DHI   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CATCHMENTS; FLOODS;

EMPIRICAL BAYES ESTIMATION; EMPIRICAL BAYES METHOD; ESTIMATION PROCEDURES; EVALUATION OF PARAMETERS; GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARE; GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARES REGRESSIONS; INTERSITE CORRELATION; PARTIAL DURATION SERIES;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FLOOD FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MODELLING;

BAYESIAN METHOD; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MODELLING; PARTIAL DURATION SERIES;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0030618866     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR03850     Document Type: Article

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