Some remarks on the reliability of categorical probability forecasts

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4488-4502

  Bröcker, Jochen ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ERRORS; FORECASTING; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

BANDWIDTH PARAMETERS; BIAS AND VARIANCES; BIN SIZES; BRIER SCORES; CALIBRATION FUNCTIONS; FORECAST EVALUATIONS; FORECAST PROBABILITIES; FORECAST RELIABILITIES; KERNEL ESTIMATES; PROBABILITY FORECASTS; RECALIBRATION; REGULARIZATION TECHNIQUES; RELIABILITY DIAGRAMS; RESIDUAL ERRORS; SAMPLE POINTS; VARIATIONS OF;

RELIABILITY;

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 57149137927     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2329.1     Document Type: Article

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