Log Pearson type 3 quantile estimators with regional skew information and low outlier adjustments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Griffis, V W ^a   Stedinger, J R ^a   Cohn, T A ^b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulletin 17B; Censored data; Conditional probability adjustment; Expected moments; Floods; Log Pearson type 3

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY ADJUSTMENTS (CPA); EXPECTED MOMENT ALGORITHMS;

WATER RESOURCES;

ALGORITHM; FLOODING; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SKEWNESS;

EID: 4143112347     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002697     Document Type: Article

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