A log-sinh transformation for data normalization and variance stabilization

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Q J ^a   Shrestha, D L ^a   Robertson, D E ^a   Pokhrel, P ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOX COX TRANSFORMATION; DATA NORMALIZATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL PREDICTION;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

ERRORS;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL TEST; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STABILIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84861141384     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010973     Document Type: Article

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