Modeling the distribution of inter-event dry spell for Peninsular Malaysia

Journal of Applied Sciences Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 333-339

  Dan'azumi, Salisu ^a   Shamsudin, Supiah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UTM RAZAK SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit test; Inter event dry period; Peninsular Malaysia; Probability distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959816725     PISSN: 1816157X     EISSN: 1819544X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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