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Sequences of wet and of dry days considered in relation to the logarithmic series
Author(s) -
Williams C. B.
Publication year - 1952
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49707833514
Subject(s) - logarithm , series (stratigraphy) , economic shortage , mathematics , logarithmic distribution , relation (database) , statistics , biology , mathematical analysis , computer science , paleontology , philosophy , negative binomial distribution , linguistics , government (linguistics) , poisson distribution , database
It is shown that the frequency distribution of sequences of fine days conforms very closely to a ‘logarithmic’ series. The sequences of ‘wet’ days do not conform so closely, as there is a shortage of one‐day sequences and an excess of 2 to 4‐day sequences, but this may be due to the method of defining ‘wet’ sequences.