Some theory and practical uses of trimmed L-moments

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3024-3039

  Hosking, J R M ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution theory; Generalized Pareto distribution; L moment ratio diagram

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248221497     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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