L-moments: papers by J. R. M. Hosking

Hosking, J. R. M. (1986). The theory of probability weighted moments. Research Report RC12210, IBM Research Division, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.

Hosking, J. R. M. (1989). Some theoretical results concerning L-moments. Research Report RC14492, IBM Research Division, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.

Hosking, J. R. M. (1990). L-moments: analysis and estimation of distributions using linear combinations of order statistics. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 52, 105-124.

Hosking, J. R. M. (1992). Moments or L-moments? An example comparing two measures of distributional shape. The American Statistician, 46, 186-189.

Guttman, N. B., Hosking, J. R. M., and Wallis, J. R. (1993). Regional precipitation quantile values for the continental U.S. computed from L-moments. Journal of Climate, 6, 2326-2340.

Hosking, J. R. M., and Wallis, J. R. (1993). Some statistics useful in regional frequency analysis. Water Resources Research, 29, 271-281. Correction: Water Resources Research, 31 (1995), 251.

Guttman, N. B., Hosking, J. R. M., and Wallis, J. R. (1994). The 1993 Midwest extreme precipitation in historical and probabilistic perspective. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 75, 1785-1792.

Hosking, J. R. M. (1994). The four-parameter kappa distribution. IBM Journal of Research and Development, 38, 251-258.

Hosking, J. R. M. (1994). Moments of order statistics of the Cantor distribution. Statistics and Probability Letters, 19, 161-165.

Hosking, J. R. M. (1995). The use of L-moments in the analysis of censored data. In Recent advances in life-testing and reliability, ed. N. Balakrishnan, 545-564. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press.

Hosking, J. R. M., and Wallis, J. R. (1995). A comparison of unbiased and plotting-position estimators of L-moments. Water Resources Research, 31, 2019-2025.

Hosking, J. R. M., and Wallis, J. R. (1996). The U.S. National Electronic Drought Atlas: statistical data analysis with GIS-based presentation of results. Research Report RC20499, IBM Research Division, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.

Hosking, J. R. M. (1998). L-moments. In Encyclopedia of statistical sciences, update vol. 2, ed. S. Kotz, C. Read and D. L. Banks, pp. 357-362. New York: Wiley.

Hosking, J., Bonti, G., and Siegel, D. (2000). Beyond the lognormal. Risk, 13:5 (May 2000), 59-62.

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