Improved finite-sample Hurst exponent estimates using rescaled range analysis

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Hamed, Khaled H ^a  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS; STREAM FLOW;

RESCALED RANGE ANALYSIS; RIVER FLOW; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

HYDROLOGY;

ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS; STREAM FLOW;

DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; RAINFALL; RIVER FLOW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES; TREE RING;

MIDWEST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249080852     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005111     Document Type: Article

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