Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Common Abbreviations
- 1 Applied Hydrology in the Twenty-First Century
- 2 Review of Mathematics
- 3 Statistical Hydrology
- 4 Rainfall Measurements and Models
- 5 Streamflow Measurements and Statistics
- 6 Geomorphologic Concepts and Watershed Characteristics
- 7 Abstractions and Effective Rainfall
- 8 Groundwater and Baseflow
- 9 Unit Hydrograph Models
- 10 Kinematic Wave Model of Overland Flow
- 11 The Rational Method
- 12 Channel Routing
- 13 Reservoir Routing
- 14 Evaporation and Evapotranspiration
- 15 Snowmelt
- 16 Erosion and Sedimentation
- 17 Reservoir Operations
- 18 Climate Change
- 19 Water Resources Management
- 20 Geographic Information Systems
- 21 Hydrologic Modeling
- References
- Index
- Plate section
3 - Statistical Hydrology
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 July 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Common Abbreviations
- 1 Applied Hydrology in the Twenty-First Century
- 2 Review of Mathematics
- 3 Statistical Hydrology
- 4 Rainfall Measurements and Models
- 5 Streamflow Measurements and Statistics
- 6 Geomorphologic Concepts and Watershed Characteristics
- 7 Abstractions and Effective Rainfall
- 8 Groundwater and Baseflow
- 9 Unit Hydrograph Models
- 10 Kinematic Wave Model of Overland Flow
- 11 The Rational Method
- 12 Channel Routing
- 13 Reservoir Routing
- 14 Evaporation and Evapotranspiration
- 15 Snowmelt
- 16 Erosion and Sedimentation
- 17 Reservoir Operations
- 18 Climate Change
- 19 Water Resources Management
- 20 Geographic Information Systems
- 21 Hydrologic Modeling
- References
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
Discusses statistical methods, covering random variables and variates, sample and population, frequency distributions, moments and moment measures, probability and stochastic processes, discrete and continuous probability distributions, return periods and quantiles, probability density functions, parameter estimation, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, covariance, regression and correlation analysis, time-series analysis.
Keywords
Frequency DistributionMoments of DistributionsMoment MeasuresQuantilesProbabilityReturn PeriodBernoulli ProcessDiscrete Probability DistributionsExpected ValuesQuantile FunctionsProbability Density FunctionsHypothesis TestingStatistical TestsInterval EstimationCovariance and CorrelationRegressionTime SeriesANOVA
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- Applied Hydrology , pp. 36 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024