Misspecification of extreme rainfall population statistics and frequency inference due to measurement bias and variability

Atmospheric Research

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 283-300

  Petersen Øverleir, Asgeir ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN WATER RESOURCES AND ENERGY DIRECTORATE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Extremes; Inference; Maximum likelihood; Measurement bias; Measurement variability; Moments; Rainfall measurement

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS;

ERROR FREE DATA; L-MOMENT COEFFICIENT; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; SKEWNESS;

RAIN;

MEASUREMENT METHOD; RAINFALL;

EID: 20044364226     PISSN: 01698095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosres.2005.01.004     Document Type: Article

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