Cherian's bivariate gamma distribution as a model for drought data;La distribución gama bivariada de Cherian como un modelo para datos de sequía

Agrociencia

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 483-490

  Nadarajah, Saralees ^a   Gupta, Arjun K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cherian's bivariate gamma distribution; Drought modeling; Ratio of random variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745852543     PISSN: 14053195     EISSN: 14053195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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