Best-Fit Probability Models for Maximum Monthly Rainfall in Bangladesh Using Gaussian Mixture Distributions

被引：13

作者：

Alam, Md Ashraful ^{[1
]}

Farnham, Craig ^{[1
]}

Emura, Kazuo ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Osaka City Univ, Grad Sch Human Life Sci, Dept Housing & Environm Design, Osaka 5588585, Japan

来源：

GEOSCIENCES | 2018年 / 8卷 / 04期

关键词：

Gaussian mixture distributions; maximum likelihood; expectation-maximization; extreme events; return period;

D O I：

10.3390/geosciences8040138

中图分类号：

P [天文学、地球科学];

学科分类号：

07 ;

摘要：

In this study, Gaussian/normal distributions (N) and mixtures of two normal (N2), three normal (N3), four normal (N4), or five normal (N5) distributions were applied to data with extreme values for precipitation for 35 weather stations in Bangladesh. For parameter estimation, maximum likelihood estimation was applied by using an expectation-maximization algorithm. For selecting the best-fit model, graphical inspection (probability density function (pdf), cumulative density function (cdf), quantile-quantile (Q-Q) plot) and numerical criteria (Akaike's information criterion (AIC), Bayesian information criterion (BIC), root mean square percentage error (RMSPE)) were used. In most of the cases, AIC and BIC gave the same best-fit results but their RMSPE results differed. The best- fit result of each station was chosen as the distribution with the lowest sum of the rank scores from each test statistic. The N distribution gave the best- fit result for 51% of the stations. N2 and N3 gave the best- fit for 20% and 14% of stations, respectively. N5 gave 11% of the best- fit results. This study also calculated the rainfall heights corresponding to 10-year, 25-year, 50-year, and 100-year return periods for each location by using the distributions to project more extreme values.

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