Stats & Decision Making in Earth Science

Catalog description

Descriptive and inference statistics, uncertainty, review of probability, empirical distributions, exploratory data analysis, parametric probability distributions, frequency and Bayesian inference, statistical forecasting and forecast verification, statistics in decision making, time series, multivariate statistics and normal distribution (MVN), principal component analysis (EOF), canonical correlation analysis (CCA), discriminant analysis, cluster analysis, thriving on the edge of chaos, effective complexity. Pre-req: C- or higher in MATH 211