A generalized gamma distribution with application to drought data

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-7

  Nadarajah, Saralees ^a   Gupta, Arjun K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Estimation; Generalized gamma distribution; Moments; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

GAMMA DISTRIBUTIONS; HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL PROPERTIES;

HYDROLOGY;

EID: 33846457060     PISSN: 03784754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matcom.2006.04.004     Document Type: Article

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