Analysis of wind speed distributions: Wind distribution function derived from minimum cross entropy principles as better alternative to Weibull function

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 962-973

  Kantar, Yeliz Mert ^a   Usta, Ilhan ^a  

^a ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Kullback Leibler measure; Minimum cross entropy principle; Weibull distribution; Wind energy; Wind speed distribution

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ENTROPY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

KULLBACK-LEIBLER MEASURE; MINIMUM CROSS ENTROPY; WIND SPEED DISTRIBUTIONS;

WIND POWER;

EID: 40849096358     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2007.10.008     Document Type: Article

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