Comments on "plotting positions in extreme value analysis"

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 255-266

  Cook, Nicholas ^a  

^a ROWAN WILLIAMS DAVIES AND IRWIN INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emergency preparedness; Probability forecasts models distribution; Societal impacts; Statistical techniques; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS; EXTREME VALUE ANALYSIS; MODEL PARAMETERS; RELATED RISK; SAMPLING ERRORS; SOCIETAL IMPACTS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL MODELING; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; UNBIASED ESTIMATOR; WEIBULL;

BUILDING CODES; CIVIL DEFENSE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS; VALUE ENGINEERING; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 79951648064     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2316.1     Document Type: Letter

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