LQ-moments: parameter estimation for kappa distribution

Ani Shabri, and Abdul Aziz Jemain, (2010) LQ-moments: parameter estimation for kappa distribution. Sains Malaysiana, 39 (5). pp. 845-850. ISSN 0126-6039

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Abstract

Identification of the true statistical distributions for various hydrologic data sets is a major problem facing engineers. The four-parameter kappa distribution is a combination of the established distribution including the Generalised Extreme Value (GEV), Generalised Logistic (GL), Generalised Pareto (GP) and the Gumbel distribution were considered in this study. The main objective of this study was to develop the method of LQ-moments for the kappa distribution. The performance of the LQ-moments was compared with L-moments through eight problems using published data sets. The results show that the performance of both methods, the LQ-moments and L-moments worked equally well.

Item Type:Article
Keywords:Kappa distribution; kernel quantile; L-moments; LQ-moments
Journal:Sains Malaysiana
ID Code:7415
Deposited By: Mr Fazli Nafiah -
Deposited On:11 Aug 2014 08:16
Last Modified:14 Dec 2016 06:44

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