The bias in moment estimators for parameters of drop size distribution functions: Sampling from exponential distributions

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1195-1205

  Smith, Paul L ^a   Kliche, Donna V ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RAIN; SAMPLING;

DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION (DSD); DROP SIZE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MOMENT ESTIMATORS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

RAINDROP; SIZE STRUCTURE;

EID: 25444519751     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAM2258.1     Document Type: Article

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