L-moments {RFA}R Documentation

L-moments and statistics within a region.

Description

Compute sample L-moments of each site within a region once normalized with a specified index flood, regional sample L-moments and 3 statistics of interest.

Usage

lmomreg(sample.sites,index.flood=mean)

Arguments

sample.sites A list giving data from each site.
index.flood A function who computes the index flood from data. The default is to compute the sample mean.

Value

A list with 3 arguments. 'site': a matrix containing the first 4 sample L-moments of each site once normalized by the index flood, 'reg': the first 4 regional sample L-moments and 'V': 3 statistics of interest. For more information, take a look at the references.

Author(s)

Ribatet Mathieu

References

Hosking, J. R. M. and Wallis, J. R. (1997) Regional Frequency Analysis. Cambridge University Press.

Examples

data(maxWind)
## Not run: lmomreg(sample.site = maxWind)

[Package RFA version 0.0-8 Index]