Regularized logistic models for probabilistic forecasting and diagnostics

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 592-604

  Bröcker, Jochen ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; FORECAST INFORMATION; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LINEAR REGRESSION TECHNIQUES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODEL ASSESSMENT; ODDS RATIOS; OVERFITTING; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTING; PROBABILITY FORECASTS; STATISTICAL MODELS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DETECTION METHOD; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77953193017     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR3126.1     Document Type: Article

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