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lmomco (version 0.80)

parwei: Estimate the Parameters of the Weibull Distribution

Description

This function estimates the parameters of the Weibull distribution given the L-moments of the data in an L-moment object such as that returned by lmom.ub. The Weibull distribution is a reverse Generalized Extreme Value distribution. As result, the Generalized Extreme Value algorithms are used for implementation of the Weibull in this package. The relation between the Generalized Extreme Value parameters ($\xi$, $\alpha$, and $\kappa$) is

$$\kappa = 1/\delta \mbox{,}$$

$$\alpha = \beta/\delta \mbox{, and}$$

$$\xi = \zeta - \beta \mbox{.}$$

These relations are taken from Hosking and Wallis (1997).

Usage

parwei(lmom)

Arguments

lmom
A L-moment object created by lmom.ub or pwm2lmom.

Value

  • An R list is returned.
  • typeThe type of distribution: wei.
  • paraThe parameters of the distribution.

References

Hosking, J.R.M. and Wallis, J.R., 1997, Regional frequency analysis---An approach based on L-moments: Cambridge University Press.

See Also

lmom.ub, lmomwei, cdfwei, quawei

Examples

Run this code
lmr <- lmom.ub(rnorm(20))
parwei(lmr)
lmr <- parwei(lmom.ub(rweibull(3000,1.3,scale=340)-1200))
str(lmr)

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