Instructor James Kirchner

 

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Analysis of Environmental Data

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PLEASE NOTE: This is a legacy site that is no longer regularly updated.  It is being maintained mostly for public access to the Data Analysis Toolkits.  Current students in Analysis of Environmental Data should log onto the course website through bspace.berkeley.edu


For the notes on Bayesian inference, CLICK HERE.

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!  
Helsel and Hirsch's great text, Statistical Methods in Water Resources (previously sold by Elsevier for over $200!) is now available for FREE PDF DOWNLOAD from the US Geological Survey's Water Resources Division.  To download your copy, go to:
http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/twri/twri4a3/

For a complete set of the datafiles mentioned in JMP Start Statistics, click here  (you'll need to un-zip the zip file)


glacier photo goes here

 

Course Overview

Fundamentals of exploratory data analysis and hypothesis testing for environmental scientists, with emphasis on characterizing and evaluating uncertainty. Introduction to selected topics relevant to environmental analysis, including error propagation, design of experiments, and monte carlo methods.

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