The Fits Routine: Fitting Distributions to Multiple Databases and Estimating Combined Extremes

Abstract

This report documents the usage of the routine FITS, which provides automated fits of various analytical, commonly used probability models from input data. This routine is intended to complement the previously distributed routine, FITTING, documented in RMS Report 14 (Winterstein et al, 1994). The FITTING routine implements relatively complex, four-moment distribution models, whose parameters are fit with numerical optimization routines. While these four-moment fits can be quite useful and faithful to the observed data, their complexity can make them difficult to automate within standard fitting algorithms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA396362

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  • Steven R. Winterstein

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  • Stanford University

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Algorithms
  • Civil Engineering
  • Data Science
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Distribution Functions
  • Eddy Currents
  • Information Science
  • Normal Distribution
  • Offshore Structures
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Procedures (Computers)
  • Reliability
  • Skewness
  • Standards

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  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
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