Analysis of two-component mixture Weibull statistics for estimation of wind speed distributions

J.A. Carta and P. Ramírez

Renewable Energy, 2007, vol. 32, issue 3, 518-531

Abstract: The typical two-parameter Weibull is a flexible distribution that is useful for describing unimodal frequency distributions of wind speeds at many sites. A two-component mixture Weibull distribution (WW-probability distribution function (pdf)) is even more useful because it is additionally able to represent heterogenous wind regimes in which there is evidence of bimodality or bitangentiality or, simply, unimodality.

Keywords: Two-component mixture Weibull distribution; Wind power density estimation; Method of moments: Maximum likelihood method; Least-square method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2006.05.005

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