Understanding mathematical and statistical techniques in hydrology : an examples-based approach /: an examples-based approach. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Harvey Rodda.
• Authors: Rodda, Harvey; Little, Max
• Contents: Preface; ; How to use this book; ; Chapter 1. Understanding Mathematical and Statistical Techniques in Hydrology; ; 1.1. Motivation for this book; ; 1.2. Mathematical preliminaries; ; Chapter 2. Statistical Modelling; ; 2.1 The Central European Floods, August 2002; ; 2.2 Extreme Value Analysis; ; 2.3 Simple Methods of Return Period Estimation; ; 2.4 Return Periods Based on Distribution Fitting; ; 2.5 Techniques for Parameter Estimation; ; Chapter 3. Equations of Hydrological Processes; ; 3.1Introduction; ; 3.2 Simple Equations; ; 3.3 Raising Values to a Power; ; 3.4 Rearranging Equations; ; 3.5 Equations with Advanced Notation; ; 3.6 Differential Equations; ; 3.7 Integration; ; Chapter 4. Equations Based on Data Fitting; ; 4.1 Experimental and Observed Data; ; 4.2 Rating Curves; ; 4.3 Regression with Two or More Independent Variables; ; 4.4. Fitting of Decay Functions; ; Chapter 5. Time series Data; ; 5.1 Introduction; ; 5.2 Characteristics of time series data; ; 5.3 Analysis of time Series Data; ; 5.4 Smoothing and Filtering; ; 5.5 Time Series Modelling; ; 5.6 Data-based Mechanistic Modelling; ; 5.7 Dealing With Non-Stationarity; ; Chapter 6. Measures of Model Performance, Uncertainty and Stochastic Modelling; ; 6.1 Introduction; ; 6.2 Quantitative Measures of Performance; ; 6.3 Comparing measures; ; 6.4 The Nash-Sutcliffe Method; ; 6.5 Uncertainty; ; 6.6 Stochastic Modelling; ; 6.7 Monte Carlo Simulations; ; 6.8 Stratified Sampling and Catastrophe Modelling; ; 6.9 Combination of Uncertainty; ; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 551.480151; Hydrology -- Mathematics; Hydrology -- Statistical methods
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119076599
• Related ISBNs: 9781119076605
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