Heteroscedastic extended logistic regression for postprocessing of ensemble guidance

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 448-456

  Messner, Jakob W ^a   Mayr, Georg J ^a   Zeileis, Achim ^a   Wilks, Daniel S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; HETEROSCEDASTIC; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; PREDICTIVE DISTRIBUTIONS; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; UNCERTAINTY INFORMATIONS; WIND SPEED DATA;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FORECASTING;

CALIBRATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84892453006     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00271.1     Document Type: Article

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