Descriptive and inferential statistics for supervising and monitoring the operation of PV plants

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4456-4464

  Vergura, Silvano ^a   Acciani, Giuseppe ^a   Amoruso, Vitantonio ^a   Patrono, Giuseppe E ^a   Vacca, Francesco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance (ANOVA); Kruskal Wallis test; Kurtosis; Photovoltaic (PV) system monitoring; Skewness

Indexed keywords

ENERGY OUTPUT; GAUSSIANS; GRID-CONNECTED PV; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; INPUT DATAS; KRUSKAL-WALLIS TEST; KURTOSIS; NON-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OFFLINE; PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV) SYSTEM MONITORING; PV INSTALLATIONS; PV MODULES; PV PLANTS; REAL TIME MONITORING; SKEWNESS;

FAULT DETECTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA);

EID: 70350397566     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2008.927404     Document Type: Article

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