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Fitting Wave Height Data to a Probability Distribution

Introduction

The University of Maine records real-time accelerometer data from buoys deployed in the Gulf of Maine and the Caribbean (http://gyre.umeoce.maine.edu/buoyhome.php). The data can be downloaded from their website, and includes the significant wave height recorded at regular intervals for the last few months.

 

This application does the following:

 

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Downloads accelerometer data for Buoy PR206 (located just off the coast of Puerto Rico at a latitude of 18° 28.46' N and a longitude of 66° 5.94' W)

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Fits the significant wave height to a Weibull distribution by using two methods: maximum likelihood estimation and moment matching

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Plots the fitted distributions on top of a histogram of the experimental data

 

Download and Plot Significant Wave Height Data in a Histogram

(2.1)

Maximum Likelihood Estimation

(3.1)

Warning, (in maxLike) `i` is implicitly declared local

(3.2)

Moment Matching

(4.1)

Results


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