Metaelliptical copulas and their use in frequency analysis of multivariate hydrological data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Genest, C ^a   Favre, A C ^b   Beliveau J ^c   Jacques, C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

^c Direction des Politiques et Programmes   (Canada)

^d Gouvernement du Quebec   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; GRAPHIC METHODS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

GRAPHICAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; MULTIVARIATE DATA;

HYDROLOGY;

DATA STRUCTURES; GRAPHIC METHODS; HYDROLOGY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

FLOOD; FLOOD FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRAPHICAL METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RANKING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; ROMAINE RIVER;

EID: 35848967004     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005275     Document Type: Article

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