Negative ridge regression parameters for improving the covariance structure of multivariate linear downscaling models

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 761-769

  Cannon, Alex J ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate downscaling; Linear regression; Multivariate statistics

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE DOWNSCALING; COVARIANCE MATRICES; COVARIANCE STRUCTURES; DOWN-SCALING; MATRIX EQUATIONS; MULTI-SITE; MULTIVARIATE DATA; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS; NEGATIVE VALUES; PRECIPITATION DATA; REGRESSION COEFFICIENT; RIDGE REGRESSION; WEATHER ELEMENTS;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DOWNSCALING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649989306     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: 10970088     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1737     Document Type: Article

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