WIND SPEED ANALYSIS AT IKEJA, NIGERIA USING THE CONVENTIONAL PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTIONS

• Main Authors: OLUSEYI OGUNSOLA, OFURE OSAGIEDE
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Alma Mater Publishing House "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau 2018-09-01
• Series: Journal of Engineering Studies and Research
• Subjects: weibull distribution; probability distribution functions; maximum likelihood estimator; method of moment; parameter estimates and best fit
• Online Access: http://jesr.ub.ro/1/article/view/52

The wind energy potential at Ikeja (Lat. 6.35 N; Long. 3.20 E), Nigeria was statistically analyzed using three of the mostly utilized conventional Probability Distribution Functions (PDFs) in order to determine which of these distributions would give the best means of analysis for wind in this particular location. The best fit test for these PDFs were determined from Akaike Information Criteria, Bayesian Information Criteria, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Cramer-von Mises statistics, Anderson-Darling Statistic, Mean Square Error and Chi-Square Test using Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Method of Moments as parameter estimates. The Weibull distribution gave the best fit in this location.