Friday and Patil's bivariate exponential distribution with application to drought data

Water Resources Management

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 749-759

  Nadarajah, Saralees ^a   Gupta, Arjun K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought modeling; Friday and Patil's bivariate exponential distribution; Product of random variables; Ratio of random variables; Sum of random variables

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BIVARIATE EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; DROUGHT MODELING; RANDOM VARIABLES; RATIO; SUM;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; HYDROLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

DROUGHT; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 33747664396     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-005-9005-z     Document Type: Article

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