Bayesian generalized least squares regression with application to log Pearson type 3 regional skew estimation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Reis Jr , D S ^a,c   Stedinger, J R ^b   Martins, E S ^a,c  

^a Fund Cearense Meteorologia R   (Brazil)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

^c FUNCEME   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; HYDROLOGY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN APPROACH; ERROR VARIANCE; GENERALIZED LEAST SQUARE; MARGINAL POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTION;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 28244446739     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003445     Document Type: Article

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