Modelling extreme wind speeds in regions prone to hurricanes

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-62

  Walshaw, David ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Extreme values; Hurricanes; Mixture models; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034364928     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00178     Document Type: Article

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