This easy-to-understand introduction emphasizes the areas of probability theory and statistic that are important in environmental monitoring, data analysis, research, environmental field surveys, and environmental decision making. It communicates basic statistical theory with very little abstract mathematical notation, without omitting important details and assumptions. Topics include Bayes'Theorem, geometric distribution, computer simulation, histograms and frequency plots, maximum likelihood estimation,the tail exponential method, Bernoulli processes, Poisson processes, diffusion and dispersion of pollutants, normal distribution, confidence intervals, and stochastic dilution; gamma, chi-square, and Weibull distribution; and the two-and three-parameter lognormal distributions.
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... provides a lucid explanation of how environmental processes can yield observations realized from various probability models, and hence gives better justification for their choice than empirical fit.
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I've used this book to help analyze in-use emissions testing of diesel engines. With its help I was able to craft Excel spreadsheets and functions that got the job done. It is clear and easy to understand, but not inspired, hence only 4 stars.
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The concept of "randomness," as used in common English, is different from its meaning in statistics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
successive random dilutions, lognormal probability model, more exceedances, exponential probability model, wedge machine, rollback factor, final beaker, fewer exceedances, exceedance rate, unit uniform distribution, ozone air quality standard, daily exceedances, standard geometric deviation, urban arterial highway, arithmetic standard deviation, arithmetic parameters, particle arrivals, binomial probability model, ambient air quality data, one exceedance, linear scale plot, aerometric data, beaker example, expected exceedances, concentration time series Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Air Poll, Control Assoc, John Wiley, San Jose, Englewood Cliffs, Environmental Protection Agency, Central Limit Theorem, Research Triangle Park, First Course, Business Statistics, Stanford University, Statistical Theory of Rollback, Department of Statistics, San Francisco, Academic Press, Applied Statistics, Elementary Statistics, Monte Carlo, Continuous Univariate Distributions, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, International Business Machines, Oxford University Press, Palo Alto, Proceedings of the Symposium New!
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New York, Air Poll, Control Assoc, John Wiley, San Jose, Englewood Cliffs, Environmental Protection Agency, Central Limit Theorem, Research Triangle Park, First Course, Business Statistics, Stanford University, Statistical Theory of Rollback, Department of Statistics, San Francisco, Academic Press, Applied Statistics, Elementary Statistics, Monte Carlo, Continuous Univariate Distributions, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, International Business Machines, Oxford University Press, Palo Alto, Proceedings of the Symposium New!
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- Continuous Univariate Distributions, Vol. 1 (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) by Norman L. Johnson on 4 pages
- Probability and Statistics by Dale M. Johnson on page 24, page 26, and page 190
- Applied Extreme Value Statistics by Robert R. Kinnison on page 25, and page 83
- Statistical Methods, Second Edition by Rudolf J. Freund on page 25, and page 27
- Basic Statistics for the Health Sciences by Jan Kuzma on page 27, and page 189
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- A Casebook for Spatial Statistical Data Analysis: A Compilation of Analyses of Different Thematic Data Sets (Spatial Information Systems) by Daniel A. Griffith on page 354, and Back Matter
- Statistical Analysis of Environmental Space-Time Processes (Springer Series in Statistics) by Nhu D. Le in Back Matter
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