A cautionary note on the use of nonparametric bootstrap for estimating uncertainties in extreme-value models

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3236-3251

  Kyselý, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAP CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FREQUENCY MODELS; NON-PARAMETRIC; PARAMETRIC AND NON-PARAMETRIC APPROACHES; PARAMETRIC BOOTSTRAPS; PARAMETRIC MODELS; REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS; SAMPLE SIZES; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES; VALUE MODELS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOOTSTRAPPING; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PROBABILITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 65249134116     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1763.1     Document Type: Article

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