Finding the best circular distribution for southwesterly monsoon wind direction in Malaysia

Nur Arina Basilah Kamisan, and Abdul Ghapor Hussin, and Yong Zulina Zubairi, (2010) Finding the best circular distribution for southwesterly monsoon wind direction in Malaysia. Sains Malaysiana, 39 (3). pp. 387-393. ISSN 0126-6039

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Abstract

In this paper, four types of circular probability distribution were used to evaluate which circular probability distribution gives the best fitting for southwesterly Malaysian wind direction data, namely circular uniform distribution, von Mises distribution, wrapped-normal distribution and wrapped-Cauchy distribution. The four locations chosen were Alor Setar, Langkawi, Melaka and Senai. Two performance indicators or goodness of fit tests which are mean circular distance and chord length were used to test which distribution give the best fitting.

Item Type:Article
Keywords:Circular probability distribution; chord length; directional data; goodness of fit test; mean circular distance
Journal:Sains Malaysiana
ID Code:7348
Deposited By: Mr Fazli Nafiah -
Deposited On:04 Aug 2014 08:11
Last Modified:14 Dec 2016 06:43

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