Probabilistic description of metocean parameters by means of kernel density models 1. Theoretical background and first results

Applied Ocean Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-20

  Athanassoulis, G A ^a   Belibassakis, K A ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Kernel density model; Metocean parameters; Multivariate probability distribution

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COSTS; ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

METOCEAN PARAMETERS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036485793     PISSN: 01411187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-1187(02)00009-3     Document Type: Article

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