Title of article
Finding the Best Circular Distribution for Southwesterly Monsoon Wind Direction in Malaysia
Author/Authors
KAMISAN, NUR ARINA BASILAH university of malaya - Centre for Foundation Studies in Science, Malaysia , HUSSIN, ABDUL GHAPOR university of malaya - Centre for Foundation Studies in Science, Kuala Lumpur , ZUBAIRI, YONG ZULINA university of malaya - Centre for Foundation Studies in Science, Malaysia
From page
387
To page
393
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.
Keywords
Circular probability distribution , chord length , directional data , goodness of fit test , mean circular distance
Journal title
Sains Malaysiana
Journal title
Sains Malaysiana
Record number
2663466
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