Two-component mixtures of normal, gamma, and Gumbel distributions for hydrological applications

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Evin, G ^a   Merleau, J ^b   Perreault, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b HYDRO QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN PERSPECTIVE; DATA SETS; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; DISTRIBUTION MODELS; GUMBEL DISTRIBUTION; GUMBEL MIXTURE; HETEROGENEOUS DATA; HYDROLOGICAL DATA; MARGINAL LIKELIHOOD; MARKOVIAN; MIXTURE MODEL; MODEL DATA; MODEL-SELECTION; MODELING DEVICES; MULTIPLE MODES; TWO-COMPONENT MIXTURES; UNIFIED APPROACH;

MARKOV PROCESSES; POPULATION STATISTICS; TIME SERIES;

MIXTURES;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MARKOV CHAIN; MODEL TEST; SKEWNESS; TIME SERIES;

EID: 80052059178     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR010266     Document Type: Article

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