Description
Book SynopsisPresenting a concise, well-rounded focus on the statistical concepts and applications that are essential for understanding gathered data in the earth and atmospheric sciences.
Table of ContentsPreface v
Contributors 1
1 Adaptive Sampling 1
2 Agricultural Surveys 8
3 Allometry 20
4 Atmospheric Statistics 27
5 Capture—Recapture Methods—I 35
6 Capture-Recapture Methods—II 43
7 Cluster Sampling 50
8 Distance Sampling 53
9 Ecological Statistics 59
10 Environmental Statistics 67
11 Estimation of Species Richness and Shared Species Richness 76
12 Geographic Information Systems 112
13 Geostatistics 121
14 Landsat Data Analysis in Crop Area Estimation 130
15 Latin Hypercube Sampling 140
16 Line Intercept Sampling 146
17 Line Transect Sampling 148
18 Methods for Drought Analysis and Forecasting 150
19 Ranked Set Sampling Methodology for Environmental Data 185
20 Spatial Data Analysis 212
21 Spatial Processes 216
22 Spatial Sampling 223
23 Statistics in Agriculture 228
24 Statistics in Animal Science 232
25 Statistics in Biogeography 239
26 Statistics in Fisheries Research 246
27 Statistics in Forestry 251
28 Statistics in Geography 266
29 Statistics in Geology 272
30 Statistics in Geophysics 276
31 Statistics in Ornithology 292
32 Stereology 304
33 Stylometry 310
34 Systematic Sampling 318
35 Traffic Flow Problems 322
36 Transect Methods 326
37 Weather Modification—I 331
38 Weather Modification—II 338
39 Wildlife Sampling 349
Index 354
