Generalized additive modelling of mixed distribution Markov models with application to Melbourne's rainfall

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 145-158

  Hyndman, Rob J ^a   Grunwald, Gary K ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary time series; Droughts; Dry spells; Gamma time series; Generalized additive model; Generalized linear model; Markov model; Mixture distribution; Non Gaussian time series; Southern oscillation index

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034385564     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00115     Document Type: Article

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