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Environmental Statistics: Stat 662
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About the Course
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This 3-credit course will be taught next in the Spring 2012 quarter. It is taught at a Masters level for statistics graduate
students and students from other disciplines who satisfy the prerequisites. Prerequisites for the course are graduate standing
in Statistics or Stat 529 or Geog 683 or Geog 883.01 or equivalent.
Environmental Statistics (Stat 662) in Spring 2012
The lectures present topics that include standard statistics used in environmental
settings, sampling design, causality, limits of detection, toxicology,
risk analysis, time series, spatial statistics, and hierarchical modeling.
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Specific Topics
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- Environmental sampling:
Finite-population sampling, stratified random sampling, composite
sampling, ranked set sampling, capture-recapture methods
- Models for environmental data:
Linear regression, likelihood analysis
- Censored data:
Limits of detection
- Risk assessment/toxicology: Dose-response assessment, exposure assessment, risk characterization
- Time series analysis:
Trend estimation, autocorrelation function,
autoregressive models
- Spatial statistics:
Variogram estimation, kriging, spatial linear model
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