Harold Edwin Hurst

Benoit B. Mandelbrot

A chapter in Statisticians of the Centuries, 2001, pp 335-338 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Harold E. Hurst, English hydrologist and “Father of the Nile,” is principally known for a remarkable power-law relation that was later interpreted as a symptom of “long-run,” or “global” statistical dependence in the Earth sciences.

Keywords: River Discharge; Statistical Dependence; Fractional Brownian Motion; Nile Basin; Brownian Motion Model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_72

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