Use of statistical distribution for drought analysis

Applied Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 21-24, 2012, Pages 1031-1051

  Yusof, Fadhilah ^a   Hui Mean, Foo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Akaike Information Criterion; Best fitted; Cramer von Mises; Drought; Exponential; Gamma; Goodness of fit; Kolmogorov Smirnov; Maximum likelihood estimation; Threshold; Weibull

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857821960     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1312885X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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