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Chiu & Kedem 1990
Chiu, L.S. and Kedem, B. (1990). Estimating the exeedance probability of rain rate by logistic regression. Journal of Geophysical Research 95: doi: 10.1029/89JD01654. issn: 0148-0227.

Recent studied have shown that the fraction of an area with rain intensity above a fixed threshold is highly correlated with the area-averaged rain rate. To estimate the fractional rainy area, a logistic regression model, which estimates the conditional probability that rain rate over an area exceeds a fixed threshold given the values of related covariates, is developed. The problem of dependency in the data in the estimation procedure is bypassed by the method of partial likelihood. Analyses of simulated scanning multichannel microwave radiometer and observed electrically scanning microwave radiometer data during the Global Atlantic Tropical Experiment period show that the use of logistic regression in pixel classification is superior to multiple regression in predicting whether rain rate at each pixel exceeds a given threshold, even in the presence of noisy data. The potential of the logistic regression technique in satellite rain rate estimation is discussed. ¿ American Geophysical Union 1990

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Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics, Precipitation
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