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Statistical Methods for Trend Detection and Analysis in the Environmental Sciences
Chandler, Richard; Scott, Marian
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Description for Statistical Methods for Trend Detection and Analysis in the Environmental Sciences
The need to understand and quantify change is fundamental throughout the environmental sciences. This might involve describing past variation, understanding the mechanisms underlying observed changes, making projections of possible future change, or monitoring the effect of intervening in some environmental system. Series: Statistics in Practice. Num Pages: 388 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: PBT; RN; TQD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 708.
The need to understand and quantify change is fundamental throughout the environmental sciences. This might involve describing past variation, understanding the mechanisms underlying observed changes, making projections of possible future change, or monitoring the effect of intervening in some environmental system. This book provides an overview of modern statistical techniques that may be relevant in problems of this nature.
The need to understand and quantify change is fundamental throughout the environmental sciences. This might involve describing past variation, understanding the mechanisms underlying observed changes, making projections of possible future change, or monitoring the effect of intervening in some environmental system. This book provides an overview of modern statistical techniques that may be relevant in problems of this nature.
Practitioners studying environmental change will be familiar with many classical statistical procedures for the detection and estimation of trends. However, the ever increasing capacity to collect and process vast amounts of environmental information has led to growing awareness that such ... Read more
Key Features:
- Presents a thorough introduction to the practical application and methodology of trend analysis in environmental science.
- Explores non-parametric estimation and testing as well as parametric techniques.
- Methods are illustrated using case studies from a variety of environmental application areas.
- Looks at trends in all aspects of a process including mean, percentiles and extremes.
- Supported by an accompanying website featuring datasets and R code.
The book is designed to be accessible to readers with some basic statistical training, but also contains sufficient detail to serve as a reference for practising statisticians. It will therefore be of use to postgraduate students and researchers both in the environmental sciences and in statistics.
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Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
Series
Statistics in Practice
Number of Pages
400
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780470015438
SKU
V9780470015438
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About Chandler, Richard; Scott, Marian
Richard E Chandler, Lecturer in Statistical Science, Department of Statistical Science, University College London Researcher in the area of stochastic processes and time series, with specific applications in hydrology and climate modeling. Work previously published by Wiley in the Encyclopaedia of Biostatistics. E. Marian Scott, Professor of Environmental Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow Marian Scott is the editor ... Read more
Reviews for Statistical Methods for Trend Detection and Analysis in the Environmental Sciences
"The book is well written and I strongly recommend the book to the users. I have no doubt that many applied statisticians will benefit by the wide coverage of topics in the book." (Journal of Time Series Analysis, 9 May 2011)