:In order to qualify the fluctuating nature of solar radiation under tropical climate, we classify daily distributions of the clearness index k t by estimating a finite mixture of Dirichlet distributions without assuming any parametric hypothesis on these daily distributions. The method is applied to solar radiation measurements performed in
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