Bivariate rainfall and runoff analysis using entropy and copula theories

Entropy

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1784-1812

  Zhang, Lan ^a   Singh, Vijay P ^b,c  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

^b Texas A and M University   (United States)

^c Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Copulas; Principle of maximum entropy; Rainfall; Runoff; Shannon entropy; Univariate probability distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867484285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e14091784     Document Type: Article

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