On the ratios for extreme value distributions with application to rainfall modeling

Environmetrics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 147-156

  Nadarajah, Saralees ^a   El Shaarawi, Abdel H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Extreme value distributions; Rainfall modeling; Ratios of random variables

Indexed keywords

MODELING; RAINFALL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33644826559     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.758     Document Type: Article

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