Sensitivity of goodness-of-fit statistics to rainfall data rounding off

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 31, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 1240-1251

  Deidda, Roberto ^a   Puliga, Michelangelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Daily rainfall data analysis; Generalized Pareto distribution; Goodness of fit statistics; L moments; Rounding off sample values

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RAIN; STATISTICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DAILLY RAINFALL DATA ANALYSIS; GENERALIZED PARETO DISTRIBUTION; L-MOMENTS; ROUNDING OFF SAMPLE VALUES;

HYDROLOGY;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SARDINIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33751414769     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2006.04.041     Document Type: Article

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