Exploiting the information content of hydrological "outliers" for goodness-of-fit testing

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1909-1917

  Laio, F ^a   Allamano, P ^a   Claps, P ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANDERSON-DARLING TESTS; CHI-SQUARED TEST; CRITICAL VALUE; EXTREME EVENTS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TEST; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TESTING; HYPOTHETICAL MODELS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; L-MOMENTS; OUTLIER DETECTION; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SAMPLE SIZES; SMALL SAMPLES; STANDARD TESTING; STANDARD VERSIONS;

STANDARDS;

TESTING;

DETECTION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; OUTLIER;

EID: 77957980441     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-14-1909-2010     Document Type: Article

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