Modeling wind energy flux by a Birnbaum-Saunders distribution with an unknown shift parameter

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2819-2838

  Leiva, Víctor ^a   Athayde, Emilia ^b   Azevedo, Cecilia ^b   Marchant, Carolina ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

diagnostic and goodness of fit techniques; hazard analysis; ML methods; moments; wind speed

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857061782     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2011.570319     Document Type: Article

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