a rain gauge network should serve general as well as specific purposes such as water supply, hydropowergeneration, flood forecasting, irrigation, and flood control. the level of accuracy a network can achieve depends onthe number and locations of gauges in the network. in this study, a rain gauge network was designed for hormozganprovince in the south of iran. monthly rainfall totals from 124 r...

This paper attempts to introduce readers with the concept and methodology of bootstrap in Statist ics, which is placed under a larger umbrella of resampling. Major port ion of the discussions should be accessible to any one who has had a couple of college level applied stat istics courses. Towards the end, we attempt to provide glimpses of the vast l i terature published on the topic, which sho...