Methods and applications of statistics in the atmospheric and Earth sciences / edited by N. Balakrishnan, McMaster University Department of Statistics, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Contributor(s): Balakrishnan, N, 1956- [editor of compilation.]Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Wiley series in methods and applications of statisticsDescription: xvi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN: 9780470503447 (hardback)Subject(s): Atmospheric physics -- Statistical methods | Earth sciences -- Statistical methods | MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / GeneralDDC classification: 519.5 LOC classification: QC874.5 | .M48 2013Other classification: MAT029000 Online resources: Cover image | WorldCat details

Contents:

TOC Preface v Contributors 1 1 Adaptive Sampling 1 2 Agricultural Surveys 8 3 Allometry 20 4 Atmospheric Statistics 27 5 Capture Recapture Methods I 35 6 Capture-Recapture Methods II 43 7 Cluster Sampling 50 8 Distance Sampling 53 9 Ecological Statistics 59 10 Environmental Statistics 67 11 Estimation of Species Richness and Shared Species Richness76 12 Geographic Information Systems 112 13 Geostatistics 121 14 Landsat Data Analysis in Crop Area Estimation 130 15 Latin Hypercube Sampling 140 16 Line Intercept Sampling 146 17 Line Transect Sampling 148 18 Methods for Drought Analysis and Forecasting 150 19 Ranked Set Sampling Methodology for Environmental Data185 20 Spatial Data Analysis 212 21 Spatial Processes 216 22 Spatial Sampling 223 23 Statistics in Agriculture 228 24 Statistics in Animal Science 232 25 Statistics in Biogeography 239 26 Statistics in Fisheries Research 246 27 Statistics in Forestry 251 28 Statistics in Geography 266 29 Statistics in Geology 272 30 Statistics in Geophysics 276 31 Statistics in Ornithology 292 32 Stereology 304 33 Stylometry 310 34 Systematic Sampling 318 35 Traffic Flow Problems 322 36 Transect Methods 326 37 Weather Modification I 331 38 Weather Modification II 338 39 Wildlife Sampling 349 Index 354

Summary: "Presenting a concise, well-rounded focus on the statistical concepts and applications that are essential for understanding gathered data in the earth and atmospheric sciences. Containing contributions from over 100 leading academics, researchers, and practitioners in these fields, this comprehensive book unveils modern, approaches to the acquisition and analysis of data across diverse subject areas like geology,

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	519.5 MET 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		26676

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Presenting a concise, well-rounded focus on the statistical concepts and applications that are essential for understanding gathered data in the earth and atmospheric sciences. Containing contributions from over 100 leading academics, researchers, and practitioners in these fields, this comprehensive book unveils modern, approaches to the acquisition and analysis of data across diverse subject areas like geology,

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