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HYDROLOGY
CHARLES
University
T.
Press / Ames
HAAN
Table of Contents
PREFACE
xiii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
xv
INTRODUCTION
BASIC CONCEPTS
Probability
.7
8
13
Bayes Theorem
Counting
Graphical Presentation
14
Random Variables
20
21
Marginal
15
17
28
Distributions
29
Conditional Distributions
30
Independence
.31
Derived Distributions
36
Mixed Distributions
40
Exercises
40
44
45
Measures of Central
47
Arithmetic
Geometric
Tendency
47
47
mean
48
mean
vii
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Median
48
Mode
Weighted
48
48
mean
Measures of Dispersion
49
Range
49
Variance
49
Measures of Symmetry
50
Measures of Peakedness
Moments and
51
52
Covariance
53
Correlation coefficient
53
55
Parameter Estimation
58
57
Unbiasedness
59
Consistency
59
Efficiency
Sufficiency
59
Method of moments
60
Maximum likelihood
62
59
Chebyshev Inequality
63
64
Exercises
65
DISTRIBUTIONS
APPLICATIONS
AND THEIR
68
Hypergeometric Distribution
68
Bernoulli Process
70
Binomial distribution
70
Geometric distribution
73
75
Poisson Process
75
76
Poisson distribution
76
Exponential
77
distribution
Gamma distribution
Summary of Poisson
Variables
78
process
79
Multinomial Distribution
79
Exercises
81
NORMAL DISTRIBUTION
84
84
Reproductive Properties
85
86
89
91
90
Binomial distribution
92
Negative
93
binomial distribution
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ix
Poisson distribution
93
Continuous distributions
93
94
Exercises
97
98
Exponential Distribution
Gamma Distribution
101
Lognormal Distribution
106
110
112
Discussion
118
118
Pearson Distributions
119
120
Chi-square
120
The t distribution
120
The F distribution
122
More
on
123
124
125
Exercises
114
Beta Distribution
Transformations
97
FREQUENCY ANANLYSIS
128
129
130
Probability Plotting
133
139
Normal distribution
140
Lognormal distribution
140
140
144
General considerations
144
Treatment of zeros
146
144
152
Exercises
158
154
158
161
161
162
Variance of
164
normal distribution
165
165
Hypothesis Testing
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H:y
u
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i,
i,
166
170
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Probability
to
Distributions
General comments
on
goodness
173
174
174
176
178
178
Exercises
180
180
Simple Regression
Evaluating the Regression
180
186
184
188
Confidence intervals
on
regression line
190
Confidence intervals
on
standard
192
error
Extrapolation
192
General Considerations
192
Exercises
194
197
197
Notation
197
203
Confidence intervals
on
standard
error
on the
203
regression coefficients
Confidence intervals on the regression line
203
Other inferences in
207
Inferences
11
172
173
10
171
for normal
populations
171
regression
206
209
Extrapolation
211
An
212
General Comments
218
Exercises
219
CORRELATION
216
222
223
Serial Correlation
227
229
Spurious Correlation
231
Exercises
234
230
TABLE OF CONTENTS
12
xi
MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS
236
Notation
236
Principal Components
Regression on Principal Components
Rotation of Principal Components
Factor Analysis
236
245
I
249
249
261
DATA GENERATION
263
263
267
271
Exercises
273
275
Definitions
275
Autocorrelation
279
Spectral Analysis
Examples of Autocorrelation
15
258
260
14
25 1
254
280
and Spectral
Density
Functions
283
Summary
286
Exercises
286
289
293
293
296
298
Models
298
309
Exercises
311
302
APPENDICES
A
Proof that s2 is
313
an Unbiased
Estimator for a2
313
316
Matrix Algebra
326
Statistical Tables
333
Properties
314
BIBLIOGRAPHY
353
INDEX
367