Analysis of two-component mixture Weibull statistics for estimation of wind speed distributions

Renewable Energy

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 518-531

  Carta, J A ^a   Ramirez P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b Instituto Tecnologico de Canarias   (Spain)

Author keywords

Least square method; Method of moments: Maximum likelihood method; Two component mixture Weibull distribution; Wind power density estimation

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MODAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

TWO-COMPONENT MIXTURE WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WEATHER STATIONS; WIND POWER DENSITY;

WIND;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MODAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION; WIND;

LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; WIND MEASUREMENT; WIND POWER; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAN CANARIA; LAS PALMAS; MACARONESIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33748503142     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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