PROBABILITY WEIGHTED MOMENTS - DEFINITION AND RELATION TO PARAMETERS OF SEVERAL DISTRIBUTIONS EXPRESSABLE IN INVERSE FORM

被引:852
作者
GREENWOOD, JA
LANDWEHR, JM
MATALAS, NC
WALLIS, JR
机构
[1] US GEOL SURVEY,NATL CTR,RESTON,VA 22092
[2] IBM CORP,THOMAS J WATSON RES CTR,YORKTOWN HTS,NY 10598
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10.1029/WR015i005p01049
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X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Distributions whose inverse forms are explicitly defined, such as Tukey's lambda, may present problems in deriving their parameters by more conventional means. Probability weighted moments are introduced and shown to be potentially useful in expressing the parameters of these distributions. Copyright 1979 by the American Geophysical Union.
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页码:1049 / 1054
页数:6
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