Model selection techniques for the frequency analysis of hydrological extremes

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Laio, Francesco ^a   Di Baldassarre, Giuliano ^b   Montanari, Alberto ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; ANDERSON-DARLING GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION; DATA SAMPLE; FLOOD PEAK; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL EXTREMES; HYPOTHESES TESTING; MODEL SELECTION; MODEL SELECTION CRITERIA; MODEL SELECTION TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETER DISTRIBUTIONS; RARE EVENT; SPECIFIC TOOL; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; THREE MODELS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; FLOOD CONTROL; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL TESTS; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATABASE; FLOOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 69249129453     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006666     Document Type: Article

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