Estimation in the pearson type 3 distribution

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2693-2704

  Koutrouvelis, Ioannis A ^a   Canavos, George C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

FLOODS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

ADAPTIVE ESTIMATION; EXPLICIT FORMULA; FRACTIONAL MOMENTS; METHOD OF CONDITIONAL MOMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATORS; PARAMETER SPACES; SMALL SAMPLES; STATISTICAL HYDROLOGIES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 0032874983     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900174     Document Type: Article

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