Assessment of an L-Kurtosis-based criterion for quantile estimation

Journal of Hydrologic Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 284-292

  Pandey, M D ^a   Van Gelder, P H A J M ^b   Vrijling, J K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOOD CONTROL; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PROBABILITY; RISKS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); STATISTICAL METHODS;

QUANTILE;

HYDROLOGY;

FLOOD CONTROL; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035395111     PISSN: 10840699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0699(2001)6:4(284)     Document Type: Article

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