Fitting Probability Distributions of Annual Rainfall in Sudan

Mohamed , Tariq Mahgoub; Ibrahim , Abbas Abd Allah

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dc.contributor.author	Mohamed , Tariq Mahgoub
dc.contributor.author	Ibrahim , Abbas Abd Allah
dc.date.accessioned	2017-04-25T07:57:15Z
dc.date.available	2017-04-25T07:57:15Z
dc.date.issued	2015
dc.identifier.citation	Mohamed , Tariq Mahgoub . Fitting Probability Distributions of Annual Rainfall in Sudan \ Tariq Mahgoub Mohamed ,Abbas Abd Allah Ibrahim .- Journal of Engineering and Computer Sciences (ECS) .- vol 17 , no2.- 2016.- article	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	ISSN 1605-427X
dc.identifier.uri	http://repository.sustech.edu/handle/123456789/16655
dc.description	article	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Annual rainfall data for fourteen rainfall stations in Sudan during the period 1971 to 2010 were analyzed to select the best probability distribution for every station. The rainfall data was obtained from the Sudan Meteorological Authority (SMA). Five distributions were tested, namely Normal, Log normal, Gamma, Weibull and exponential distribution. Three statistical goodness of fit test were used on the basis of the minimum value of test statistic. The best fit probability distribution was selected based on the minimum deviation between observed and estimated values. The normal and gamma distribution were selected as the best fit probability distribution for the annual rainfall in Sudan during the period of the study, respectively.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Sudan University of Science and Technology	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Sudan University of Science and Technology	en_US
dc.subject	Probability Distributions, Annual Rainfall, Sudan, Goodness-of-Fit Test	en_US
dc.title	Fitting Probability Distributions of Annual Rainfall in Sudan	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US