Approximate confidence intervals for design floods for a single site using a neural network

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 203-209

  Whitley, Robert ^a   Hromadka II, T V ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EXPONENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ESTIMATED SKEW; ESTIMATED STANDARD DEVIATION; PEARSON DISTRIBUTION;

FLOODS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FLOOD; HYDROLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032920119     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998WR900016     Document Type: Article

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