Statistical Analysis in Climate Research

1. Introduction Part I. Fundamentals: 2. Probability theory 3. Distributions of climate variables 4. Concepts in statistical inference 5. Estimation Part II. Confirmation and Analysis: 6. The statistical test of a hypothesis 7. Analysis of atmospheric circulation problems Part III. Fitting Statistical Models: 8. Regression 9. Analysis of variance Part IV. Time Series: 10. Time series and stochastic processes 11. Parameters of univariate and bivariate time series 12. Estimating covariance functions and spectra Part V. Eigen Techniques: 13. Empirical orthogonal functions 14. Canonical correlation analysis 15. POP analysis 16. Complex eigentechniques Part VI. Other Topics: 17. Specific statistical concepts in climate research 18. Forecast quality evaluation Part VII. Appendices.

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