The book covers entropy-based techniques for parameter estimation in hydrology. The techniques are presented for twenty distributions used in hydrology, including the distributions of the normal family, the extreme-value family, the Pareto family, and the logistic family. A comparative assessment of the entropy-based techniques is made with traditional methods of parameter estimation, such as the methods of moments, maximum likelihood estimation, probability-weighted moments, L-moments, and least squares, using field data as well as Monte Carlo simulation experiments. The book is the first attempt to comprehensively present the entropy-based techniques for most distributions of interest in hydrology. Audience: The material covered in the book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers, and teachers, as well as practitioners of agricultural engineering, civil engineering, agricultural sciences, earth sciences, environmental sciences, and forest and range sciences.
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`The author must be congratulated for bringing together such a wealth of information, and for its excellent presentation. The book will become a major reference volume for the parameter estimation of the probability distribution functions applied in water science. It is a welcome contribution to water resources literature and can be nominated as a book of a year in the water science area.' Pure and Applied Geophysics, 158 (2001)
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Clausius coined the term 'entropy' from the Greek meaning transformation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
between parameters and constraints, computed frequency curves, space expansion method, increasing population skewness, one obtains the entropy function, relation between distribution parameters, hydrologic frequency analysis, probability weighted moments, flood quantile estimates, parameter estimation equations, yields the partition function, flood frequency models, relative mean error, standardized bias, plotting position formula, flood frequency analysis, regional frequency analysis, generalized pareto distribution, highest bias, extreme value type, systematic period, generalized extreme value distribution, least bias, constraints for this method, various return periods Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Journal of Hydrology, Baton Rouge, New York, John River, Louisiana State University, Eliminating the Lagrange, Completion Report, Comite River, Amite River, Technical Report, American Geophysical Union, Fort Kent, Allagash River, American Society of Civil Engineers, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Fish River, United States, Department of Civil Engineering, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Journal of the Hydraulics Division, Research Report, Yorktown Heights, Comparative Evaluation of Estimation Methods, Comparative Evaluation of Parameter Estimation Methods New!
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Clausius coined the term 'entropy' from the Greek meaning transformation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
between parameters and constraints, computed frequency curves, space expansion method, increasing population skewness, one obtains the entropy function, relation between distribution parameters, hydrologic frequency analysis, probability weighted moments, flood quantile estimates, parameter estimation equations, yields the partition function, flood frequency models, relative mean error, standardized bias, plotting position formula, flood frequency analysis, regional frequency analysis, generalized pareto distribution, highest bias, extreme value type, systematic period, generalized extreme value distribution, least bias, constraints for this method, various return periods Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Journal of Hydrology, Baton Rouge, New York, John River, Louisiana State University, Eliminating the Lagrange, Completion Report, Comite River, Amite River, Technical Report, American Geophysical Union, Fort Kent, Allagash River, American Society of Civil Engineers, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Fish River, United States, Department of Civil Engineering, Hydrological Sciences Journal, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, Journal of the Hydraulics Division, Research Report, Yorktown Heights, Comparative Evaluation of Estimation Methods, Comparative Evaluation of Parameter Estimation Methods New!
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- Frequency and Risk Analyses in Hydrology by G. W. Kite on page 81, page 106, and page 272
- Entropy and Energy Dissipation in Water Resources (Water Science and Technology Library) by V.P. Singh on page 9, and page 10
- Hydrologic Frequency Modeling by V.P. Singh on page 10, and Back Matter
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Hydrology and Water Resources, New Delhi, India, December 1993, Vol. 1: Surface-Water Hydrology by V.P. Singh on page 10, and Back Matter
- Statistical Extremes and Applications (NATO Science Series C: (closed)) by J. Tiago de Oliveira on page 321, and page 334
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