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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 1996
- Accession Number
- ADA396362
Entities
People
- Steven R. Winterstein
Organizations
- Stanford University