Fitting the statistical distribution for daily rainfall in Peninsular Malaysia based on AIC criterion

• Main Authors: Syed Jamaludin, Shariffah Suhaila, Jemain, Abdul Aziz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: INSInet Publications 2008
• Subjects: QA Mathematics
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/9956/1/SSuhailaSJamaludin2008_FittingTheStatisticalDistributionforDailyRainfall.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/9956/; http://www.insipub.com/jasr/2008/1846-1857.pdf

This paper presents several types of exponential distributions to describe rainfall distribution in Peninsular Malaysia over a multi-year period. The exponential, gamma, mixed exponential and mixed gamma distributions are compared to identify the optimal model for daily rainfall amount based on da...