%0 Journal Article
%T Likely Rainfall for Alegre-ES by the Gamma Probability Distribution
%A Jo£¿o Paulo Bestete de Oliveira
%A Roberto Avelino Cec¨ªlio
%A Alexandre Candido Xavier
%A Andrea Pinheiro dos Santos Jasper
%J Engenharia Ambiental : Pesquisa e Tecnologia
%D 2010
%I Environmental Engineering Course / UNIPINHAL
%X The objective of this study was to estimate rainfall expected for Alegre-ES by the gamma distribution. We used rainfall data covering the period from 1940 to 2007. The parameters ¦Á and ¦Â of the gamma distribution were obtained by the method of maximum likelihood. Probable rainfall were obtained by the inverse function. We used the test of Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to check the fit of estimated to observed data. The results indicated that the gamma distribution provided a good fit to the data of rain to Alegre-ES can therefore be used to estimate the likely monthly rainfall.
%K precipitation
%K probability distributions
%K statistics.
%U http://www.unipinhal.edu.br/ojs/engenhariaambiental/include/getdoc.php?id=1143&article=461&mode=pdf