Cramer-von Mises and Anderson-Darling goodness of fit tests for extreme value distributions with unknown parameters

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2004, Pages

  Laio, Francesco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anderson Darling test; Extreme value analysis; Floods; Tests of fit

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SAMPLING; STATISTICS;

ANDERSON-DARLING STATISTICS; CRAMER-VON MISES STATISTICS; GOODNESS OF FIT TESTS; SAMPLE CORRECTIONS;

WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

FLOOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 6344219899     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003204     Document Type: Article

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