Fitting The Best–Fit Distribution For The Hourly Rainfall Amount In The Wilayah Persekutuan

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fadhilah Y. ◽  
Zalina Md. ◽  
Nguyen V–T–V. ◽  
Suhaila S. ◽  
Zulkifli Y.

Dalam mengenal pasti model yang terbaik untuk mewakili taburan jumlah hujan bagi data selang masa satu jam di 12 stesen di Wilayah Persekutuan empat taburan digunakan iaitu Taburan Eksponen, Gamma, Weibull dan Gabungan Eksponen. Parameter–parameter dianggar menggunakan kaedah kebolehjadian maksimum. Model yang terbaik dipilih berdasarkan nilai minimum yang diperolehi daripada ujian–ujian kebagusan penyuaian yang digunakan dalam kajian ini. Ujian ini dipertahankan lagi dengan plot kebarangkalian dilampaui. Taburan Gabungan Eksponen di dapati paling baik untuk mewakili taburan jumlah hujan dalam selang masa satu jam. Daripada anggaran parameter bagi taburan Gabungan Eksponen ini, boleh diterjemah bahawa jumlah hujan tertinggi yang direkodkan diperolehi daripada hujan yang dikategorikan sebagai hujan lebat, walaupun hujan renyai–renyai berlaku lebih kerap. Kata kunci: Jumlah hujan dalam selang masa sejam, ujian kebagusan penyuaian, kebolehjadian maksimum In determining the best–fit model for the hourly rainfall amounts for the twelve stations in the Wilayah Persekutuan, four distributions namely, the Exponential, Gamma, Weibull and Mixed–Exponential were used. Parameters for each distribution were estimated using the maximum likelihood method. The best–fit model was chosen based upon the minimum error produced by the goodness–offit tests used in this study. The tests were justified further by the exceedance probability plot. The Mixed–Exponential was found to be the most appropriate distribution in describing the hourly rainfall amounts. From the parameter estimates for the Mixed–Exponential distribution, it could be implied that most of the hourly rainfall amount recorded were received from the heavy rainfall even though there was a high occurrences of light rainfall. Key words: Hourly rainfall amount, goodness-of-fit test, exceedance probability, maximum likelihood

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Meeran Akram Fawzee ◽  
Samira M. Salh ◽  
Slahaddin A. Ahmed

Study the statistical distribution for rainfall is important to know the behaviour of the rainfall series and to know the most frequently rainfall amount in each month. Five statistical distribution were applied on Sulaimani, Erbil and Duhok rainfall series for the period (1941-2017) except Duhok (1944-2017). These distributions were Gamma(3P), Weibul(3P), Earlang (3P), Normal and General extreme value. Kolmogrove-Semirnov, Anderson-Darling and Chi-Square goodness of fit test were used to know the best fit distribution from these five distributions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Josmar Mazucheli ◽  
Ricardo Puziol Oliveira ◽  
Danielle Peralta ◽  
Isabele P. Emanuelli

In animal production, the models that mimicry the biological reality are of great importance for optimization and sustainability of the productive system. The continuous Burr XII distribution is widely used in survival data analysis, however, the same does not occur with its discrete version, recently proposed in the literature. The purpose of this work is to use the discrete Burr XII distribution, obtained by the discretization method proposed by Nakagawa and Osaki (1975), in the analysis of data related to animal production. The data analyzed describe the time, in days, from birth to first laying of yellow quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) submitted to two diets. For this purpose the discretized versions of five distributions were used: the discrete Burr XII, the discrete Weibull, the discrete gamma, the discrete inverse-Gaussian and the discrete log-normal. For all distributions, the parameter estimates were obtained by the maximum likelihood method. Despite the similarity between the estimates it is natural to choose the discrete given the nature of the data and assuming the discrete distribution, it could be calculated exactly, for example, the probability of the time to the first posture, which is not possible if a continuous distribution is assumed. Thus, among the discrete distributions, the chi-square goodness-of-fit test showed that the Burr XII distribution was the only one indicated to describe the behavior of the data considered.


Author(s):  
Suhaila Jamaludin ◽  
Abdul Aziz Jemain

Data hujan harian dibahagikan kepada empat jenis rentetan hujan (jenis 1, 2, 3 dan 4). Taburan Gamma, Weibull, Kappa dan Gabungan Eksponen ialah empat taburan statistik yang diuji dalam memadankan data jumlah hujan harian di Semenanjung Malaysia. Parameter bagi setiap taburan dianggar dengan menggunakan kaedah kebolehjadian maksimum. Model dipilih berdasarkan nilai ralat yang minimum terhasil dari tujuh ujian kesesuaian model iaitu median bagi perbezaan nilai mutlak antara taburan empirik dengan taburan yang diuji, statistik fungsi empirik iaitu Kolmogorov-Smirnov D, Anderson Darling A2 dan Cramer-von-Mises W2 serta kaedah baru statistik fungsi empirik yang berasaskan kepada ujian nisbah kebolehjadian. Berdasarkan nilai ujian kesesuaian model, didapati taburan Gabungan Eksponen adalah yang paling sesuai dalam memadankan data jumlah hujan harian di Semenanjung Malaysia. Kata kunci: Jumlah hujan harian, ujian kesesuaian model, gabungan eksponen Daily rainfall data have been classified according to four rain types of sequence of wet days (Type 1, 2, 3 and 4). The Gamma, Weibull, Kappa and Mixed Exponential are the four distributions that have been tested to fit daily rainfall amount in Peninsular Malaysia. Parameter for each distribution were estimated using the maximum likelihood method. The selected model is chosen based on the minimum error produced by seven goodness-of-fit (GOF) tests namely the medium of absolute difference (MAD) between the empirical and hypothesized distributions, the traditional Empirical Distribution Function (EDF) Statistics which include Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic D, Anderson Darling statistic A2 and Cramer-von-Mises statistic W2 and the new method of EDF Statistic based on likelihood ratio statistic. Based on these goodness-of-fit test, the Mixed Exponential is found to be the most approriate distribution for describing the daily rainfall amount in Peninsular Malaysia. Key words: Dairy rainfall amount, goodness–of–fit test, mixed exponential


2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui J. Costa ◽  
Hilde Wilkinson-Herbots

AbstractThe isolation-with-migration (IM) model is commonly used to make inferences about gene flow during speciation, using polymorphism data. However, Becquet and Przeworski (2009) report that the parameter estimates obtained by fitting the IM model are very sensitive to the model's assumptions (including the assumption of constant gene flow until the present). This paper is concerned with the isolation-with-initial-migration (IIM) model of Wilkinson-Herbots (2012), which drops precisely this assumption. In the IIM model, one ancestral population divides into two descendant subpopulations, between which there is an initial period of gene flow and a subsequent period of isolation. We derive a very fast method of fitting an extended version of the IIM model, which also allows for asymmetric gene flow and unequal population sizes. This is a maximum-likelihood method, applicable to data on the number of segregating sites between pairs of DNA sequences from a large number of independent loci. In addition to obtaining parameter estimates, our method can also be used to distinguish between alternative models representing different evolutionary scenarios, by means of likelihood ratio tests. We illustrate the procedure on pairs of Drosophila sequences from approximately 30,000 loci. The computing time needed to fit the most complex version of the model to this data set is only a couple of minutes. The R code to fit the IIM model can be found in the supplementary files of this paper.


2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Suliman Hanaish ◽  
Kamarulzaman Ibrahim ◽  
Abdul Aziz Jemain

Three versions of Bartlett Lewis rectangular pulse rainfall models, namely, the Original Bartlett Lewis (OBL), Modified Bartlett Lewis (MBL), and 2N-cell-type Bartlett Lewis model (BL2n), are considered. These models are fitted to the hourly rainfall data from 1970 to 2008 obtained from Petaling Jaya rain gauge station, located in Peninsular Malaysia. The generalized method of moments is used to estimate the model parameters. Under this method, minimization of two different objective functions which involve different weight functions, one weight is inversely proportional to the variance and another one is inversely proportional to the mean squared, is carried out using Nelder-Mead optimization technique. For the purpose of comparison of the performance of the three different models, the results found for the months of July and November are used for illustration. This performance is assessed based on the goodness of fit of the models. In addition, the sensitivity of the parameter estimates to the choice of the objective function is also investigated. It is found thatBL2nslightly outperformsOBL. However, the best model is the Modified Bartlett LewisMBL, particularly when the objective function considered involves weight which is inversely proportional to the variance.


2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Mayumi Naka ◽  
Ritei Shibata

In this paper, asymptotic distribution of Cram\'er-von Mises goodness-of-fit test statistic is investigated when contamination exists.<br />We first derive the asymptotic distribution of the Cram\'er-von Mises statistic when the observations are contaminated with noise as a mixture.<br />The result is extended to the case where the parameters are estimated by the minimum distance estimator,<br />which minimizes the Cram\'er-von Mises statistic.<br />In both cases the asymptotic distribution of the Cram\'er-von Mises statistic is given by that of the weighted infinite sum of non-central $\chi^2_1$ variables and the effect of contamination appears only in the non-centrality of the variables.<br />We also demonstrate the robustness of the goodness-of-fit test by Monte Carlo simulations when the parameters are estimated<br />by the minimum distance estimator and the maximum likelihood estimator.<br />Numerical experiments indicate that the use of the minimum distance estimator makes the test insensitive to contamination whereas the power is retained almost the same as that of the maximum likelihood estimator.


1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Ajne

AbstractThree methods for fitting multiplicative models to observed, cross-classified risk data are compared. They are the method of Bailey–Simon, the method of marginal totals and a maximum likelihood method. The methods are applied to a number of risk data sets and compared with respect to balance and goodness-of-fit.


2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Minh H. Pham ◽  
Chris Tsokos ◽  
Bong-Jin Choi

The generalized Pareto distribution (GPD) is a flexible parametric model commonly used in financial modeling. Maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) of the GPD was proposed by Grimshaw (1993). Maximum likelihood estimation of the GPD for censored data is developed, and a goodness-of-fit test is constructed to verify an MLE algorithm in R and to support the model-validation step. The algorithms were composed in R. Grimshaw’s algorithm outperforms functions available in the R package ‘gPdtest’. A simulation study showed the MLE method for censored data and the goodness-of-fit test are both reliable.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
Aminu Suleiman Mohammed ◽  
Badamasi Abba ◽  
Abubakar G. Musa

For proper actualization of the phenomenon contained in some lifetime data sets, a generalization, extension or modification of classical distributions is required. In this paper, we introduce a new generalization of exponential distribution, called the generalized odd generalized exponential-exponential distribution. The proposed distribution can model lifetime data with different failure rates, including the increasing, decreasing, unimodal, bathtub, and decreasing-increasing-decreasing failure rates. Various properties of the model such as quantile function, moment, mean deviations, Renyi entropy, and order statistics.  We provide an approximation for the values of the mean, variance, skewness, kurtosis, and mean deviations using Monte Carlo simulation experiments. Estimating of the distribution parameters is performed using the maximum likelihood method, and Monte Carlo simulation experiments is used to assess the estimation method. The method of maximum likelihood is shown to provide a promising parameter estimates, and hence can be adopted in practice for estimating the parameters of the distribution. An application to real and simulated datasets indicated that the new model is superior to the fits than the other compared distributions


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