Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences

Informationen zum Autor Daniel S. Wilks has been a member of the Atmospheric Sciences faculty at Cornell University since 1987, and is the author of Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences (2011, Academic Press), which is in its third edition and has been continuously in print since 1995. Research areas include statistical forecasting, forecast postprocessing, and forecast evaluation. Klappentext This revised and expanded text explains the latest statistical methods that are being used to describe, analyze, test, and forecast atmospheric data. It features numerous worked examples, illustrations, equations, and exercises with separate solutions. The book will help advanced students and professionals understand and communicate what their data sets have to say, and make sense of the scientific literature in meteorology, climatology, and related disciplines. Zusammenfassung Explains the various statistical methods that are being used to describe! analyze! test and forecast atmospheric data. This title helps advanced students and professionals understand and communicate what their data sets have to say! and make sense of the scientific literature in meteorology! climatology! and related disciplines. Inhaltsverzeichnis I Preliminaries 1. Introduction2. Review of Probability II Univariate Statistics 3. Empirical Distributions and Exploratory Data Analysis4. Parametric Probability Distributions5. Frequentist Statistical Inference6. Bayesian Inference7. Statistical Forecasting8. Forecast Verification9. Time Series III Multivariate Statistic 10. Matrix Algebra and Random Matrices11. The Multivariate Normal (MVN) Distribution12. Principal Component (EOF) Analysis13. Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA)14. Discrimination and Classification15. Cluster Analysis AppendixA. Example Data SetsB. Probability TablesC. Answers to Exercises

Product details

• Authors: Daniel S Wilks, Daniel S. Wilks, Daniel S. (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Wilks, Wilks Daniel S.
• Publisher: Academic Press London
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9780123850225
• ISBN: 978-0-12-385022-5
• No. of pages: 704
• Series: Academic Press; International Geophysics; Academic Press; International Geophysics; International Geophysics (Hard
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Meteorologie und Klimatologie (Klimaforschung), MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, Geologie und die Lithosphäre, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, Meteorology & climatology, Meteorology and climatology, Probability & statistics, Probability and statistics