Weighted likelihood copula modeling of extreme rainfall events in Connecticut

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 390, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 108-115

  Wang, Xiaojing ^a   Gebremichael, Mekonnen ^a   Yan, Jun ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Metaelliptical copula; Predictive likelihood; Weighted likelihood

Indexed keywords

BORROWING STRENGTH; CROSS VALIDATION; DESIGN STORMS; EXTREME RAINFALL; KERNEL FUNCTION; LOG LIKELIHOOD; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTIPLE CHARACTERISTICS; MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS; PEAK INTENSITY; PRACTICAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION DATA; RAINFALL EVENT; SAMPLE SIZES; SAMPLING ALGORITHM; TRIVARIATE;

PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAMPLING; TIME SERIES;

RAIN;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; STATISTICAL APPLICATION; TIME SERIES;

CONNECTICUT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955277285     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2010.06.039     Document Type: Article

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