ESTIMATION OF PARAMETERS AND QUANTILES OF WAKEBY DISTRIBUTIONS .1. KNOWN LOWER BOUNDS

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作者
LANDWEHR, JM [1 ]
MATALAS, NC [1 ]
WALLIS, JR [1 ]
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[1] IBM CORP,WATSON RES LAB,YORKTOWN HTS,NY 10598
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10.1029/WR015i006p01361
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X [环境科学、安全科学];
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08 ; 0830 ;
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An algorithm based on the use of probability weighted moments allows estimation of the parameters of the Wakeby distribution. In the case where the lower bound is known, the quantile estimates, unlike the parameter estimates, tend to be neither highly biased nor highly variable, even for samples of small size (n = 5). Copyright 1979 by the American Geophysical Union.
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页码:1361 / 1372
页数:12
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