Statistical analysis of the wind resources at darling for energy production

International Journal of Renewable Energy Research

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 250-261

  Olaofe, Zaccheus O ^a   Folly, Komla A ^a  

^a Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit; Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE); Wind Data; Wind Power Density

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872019983     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13090127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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