Meta-elliptical copulas for drought frequency analysis of periodic hydrologic data

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 425-444

  Song, Songbai ^a   Singh, Vijay P ^b,c  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Texas A M University   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Drought characteristics; Drought frequency analysis; Meta elliptical copulas; Multivariate frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; ANDERSON-DARLING STATISTICS; CHI-SQUARE TESTS; CLASSICAL CORRELATION; CLAYTON; DROUGHT FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; ELLIPTICAL COPULA; GAUGING STATIONS; GAUSSIAN COPULA; GAUSSIANS; GOODNESS OF FIT; HYDROLOGIC DATA; JOINT PROBABILITY; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TEST; MULTIVARIATE FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION DATA; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; UNIVARIATE; VON MISES;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DROUGHT;

DROUGHT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PROBABILITY;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955058454     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-009-0331-1     Document Type: Article

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