Selecting a binary Markov model for a precipitation process

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 795-820

  Hosseini, Reza ^a   Le, Nhu ^b   Zidek, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

AIC; BIC; Binary Markov processes; Calgary precipitation; Markov model selection; Precipitation model

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; SEASONALITY;

ALBERTA; CALGARY; CANADA;

EID: 81555195687     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-010-0169-1     Document Type: Article

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