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Matched block bootstrap for resampling multiseason hydrologic time series
Kasthrirengan Srinivasan
Published in
2005
Volume: 19
   
Issue: 18
Pages: 3659 - 3682
Abstract
A nonparametric method for resampling multiseason hydrologic time series is presented. It is based on the idea of rank matching, for simulating univariate time series with strong and/or long-range dependence. The rank matching rule suggests concatenating with higher likelihood those blocks that match at their ends. In the proposed method, termed 'multiseason matched block bootstrap', nonoverlapping within-year blocks of hydrologic data (formed from the observed time series) are conditionally resampled using the rank matching rule. The effectiveness of the method in recovering various statistical attributes, including the dependence structure from finite samples generated from a known population, is demonstrated through a two-level hypothetical Monte Carlo simulation experiment. The method offers enough flexibility to the modeller and is shown to be appropriate for modelling hydrologic data that display strong dependence, nonlinearity and/or multimodality in the time series depicting the hydrologic process. The method is shown to be more efficient than the nonparametric 'k-nearest neighbor bootstrap' method in simulating the monthly streamflows that exhibit a complex dependence structure and bimodal marginal probability density. Even with short block sizes, this bootstrap method is able to predict the drought characteristics reasonably accurately. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
About the journal
JournalHydrological Processes
ISSN08856087
Open AccessNo
Concepts (19)
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    Algorithms
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    Computer simulation
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    Drought
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    Mathematical models
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    Monte carlo methods
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    Probability density function
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    Statistical methods
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    Stream flow
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    Time series analysis
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    DROUGHT ANALYSIS
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    HYDROLOGIC TIME SERIES
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    MULTISEASON MATCHED BLOCK BOOTSTRAP
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    Nonparametric
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    STREAMFLOW SIMULATION
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    Hydrology
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    Bootstrapping
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    Flow modeling
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    Hydrological modeling
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    Streamflow