Title: Atmospheric lead concentration distribution in Northern Taiwan
Authors: Lu, HC
Tsai, CJ
Hung, IF
環境工程研究所
Institute of Environmental Engineering
Keywords: goodness-of-fit;lognormal;weibull;gamma;cumulative frequency distributions
Issue Date: 1-Aug-2003
Abstract: Atmospheric lead concentrations were measured randomly, approximately once per week, at five traffic sites in northern Taiwan from September 1994 to May 1995. Three types,of theoretical distributions, lognormal, Weibull and gamma were selected to fit the frequency distribution of the measured lead concentration. Four goodness-of-fit criteria were used to judge which theoretical distribution is the most appropriate to represent the frequency distributions of atmospheric lead. The results show that atmospheric lead concentrations in total suspended particulates fit the lognormal distribution reasonably well in northern Taiwan. The intervals of fitted theoretical cumulative frequency distributions (CFDs) can successfully contain the measured data when the population mean is estimated with a 95% confidence interval. In addition, atmospheric lead concentration exceeding a critical concentration is also predicted from the fitted theoretical CFDs. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11536/27655
ISSN: 0045-6535
Journal: CHEMOSPHERE
Volume: 52
Issue: 6
Begin Page: 1079
End Page: 1088
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