Statistical models for overdispersion in the frequency of peaks over threshold data for a flow series

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Eastoe, Emma F ^a   Tawn, Jonathan A ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL MAXIMA; APPROPRIATE MODELS; ASYMPTOTIC THEORIES; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; FLOOD EVENT; FLOW SERIES; HOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS; MIXED MODELS; NEW MODEL; OVERDISPERSION; PEAK TIME; PEAKS OVER THRESHOLD; RIVER FLOW; RIVER THAMES; STATISTICAL MODELS; TIME VARIATIONS;

POISSON EQUATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

FLOOD FREQUENCY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POISSON RATIO; PROBABILITY; RIVER FLOW; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

CANADA; KINGSTON [ONTARIO]; ONTARIO [CANADA]; THAMES RIVER [ONTARIO];

EID: 77249141035     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR007757     Document Type: Article

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