Beta-κ distribution and its application to hydrologic events

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 897-911

  Murshed, Md Sharwar ^a   Kim, Sangil ^b   Park, Jeong Soo ^a  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

L moments; Maximum likelihood estimation; Method of moments estimation; Simulation; The beta distribution

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHODS; EXTREME EVENTS; EXTREME VALUE DISTRIBUTIONS; GENERALIZED BETA DISTRIBUTION; GUMBEL DISTRIBUTION; HYDROLOGIC EVENTS; L-MOMENTS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION METHOD; METHOD OF L-MOMENTS; METHOD OF MOMENTS ESTIMATION; SIMULATION; SIMULATION STUDIES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 80051787577     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-011-0494-4     Document Type: Article

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