The PWM large quantile estimates of heavy tailed distributions from samples deprived of their largest element

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 367-386

  Kochanek, Krzysztof ^a   Strupczewski, Witold G ^a   Singh, Vijay P ^b   Weglarczyk, Stanislaw ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^b Texas A M University   (United States)

^c CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bias; Censoring; Estimation; Floods; Largest sample element; Log Gumbel distribution; Mean square error; Monte Carlo simulation; Probability weighted moments

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; STREAM FLOW;

HEAVY TAILED DISTRIBUTIONS; LOG-GUMBEL DISRIBUTION; PROBABILITY WEIGHTED MOMENTS (PWM);

HYDROLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; STREAMFLOW;

PHYTOLACCACEAE;

EID: 42449119250     PISSN: 02626667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1623/hysj.53.2.367     Document Type: Article

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