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Statistical analysis in Climate Research (1999)
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@MISC{Storch99statisticalanalysis,
author = {Hans Von Storch and Francis W. Zwiers Cambridge},
title = {Statistical analysis in Climate Research},
year = {1999}
}
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Abstract
Climate is a complex system: it has many variables, and they are acting nonlinearly, in general. Therefore, no exact answers to questions should be expected, and many climatic processes are and will be poorly understood. That means that statistical analysis is undeniable in climate research. This single book provides climatologists} whether they work in modeling or in measuring, whether they are professionals seeking references or students starting to learn} with what they need to know about statistical analysis. The introduction (Chapter 1) offers a broader and more colorful motivation than mine for statistical analysis in climatology. Chapter 2 supplies the fundamentals of probability theory such as random variables or statistical distributions. The authors adopt a frequentist viewpoint which should be easily accessible for
