The construction of confidence intervals for frequency analysis using resampling techniques

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 235-246

  Hall, M J ^a   van den Boogaard, H F P ^b   Fernando, R C ^c   Mynett, A E ^a,b  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b WL DELFT HYDRAULICS   (Netherlands)

^c Sri Lanka Land Reclam/Devmt Corp   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Frequency analysis; Jack knife; Maximum likelihood method; Maximum product of spacings method

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; SAMPLING;

EID: 5044222408     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-8-235-2004     Document Type: Article

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