Multivariate Model for Soil Parameters Based on Johnson Distributions

Geotechnical Special Publication

Volumn 2013-March, Issue GSP 229, 2013, Pages 337-353

  Phoon, Kok Kwang ^a   Ching, Jianye ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Databases; Parameters; Soil properties

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POTASSIUM ALLOYS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOIL TESTING; URANIUM ALLOYS;

DESIGN PARAMETERS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; JOHNSON DISTRIBUTION; MULTIVARIATE DISTRIBUTIONS; MULTIVARIATE MODELING; MULTIVARIATE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PARAMETER; SITE INVESTIGATIONS; SOIL PARAMETERS; SOIL PROPERTY;

SOILS;

EID: 85138293233     PISSN: 08950563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/9780784412763.027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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