Environmental statistics : methods and applications /

In modern society, we are ever more aware of the environmental issues we face, whether these relate to global warming, depletion of rivers and oceans, despoliation of forests, pollution of land, poor air quality, environmental health issues, etc. At the most fundamental level it is necessary to moni...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnett, Vic
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley, ©2004.
Series:Wiley series in probability and statistics.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • I: Extremal stresses: extremes, outliers, robustness
  • Ordering and extremes: applications, models, inference
  • Outliers and robustness
  • II: Collecting environmental data: sampling and monitoring
  • Finite-population sampling
  • Inaccessible and sensitive data
  • Sampling in the wild
  • III: Examining environmental effects: stimulus-response relationships
  • Relationship: regression-type models and methods
  • Special relationship models, including quantal response and repeated measures
  • IV: Standards and regulations
  • Environmental standards
  • V: A many-dimensional environment: spatial and temporal processes
  • Time-series methods
  • Spatial methods for environmental processes.