Statistics in civil engineering / Andrew V. Metcalfe.

• Main Author: Metcalfe, Andrew V. (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Arnold ; Wiley, 1997.
• Series: Arnold applications of statistics series
• Subjects: Πολιτική μηχανική > Στατιστικές μέθοδοι.; Πολιτική μηχανική > Μαθηματικά.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Statistics in Civil Engineering
• 2. Probability Distributions and Monte Carlo Simulation
• 3. Quality Assurance and Reliability
• 4. Extreme Value and Related Distributions
• 5. Relationships Between Variables
• 6. Bayesian Methods
• 7. Modelling Variability in Time and Space
• 8. Spectral Analysis and More on Dynamic Systems
• 9. Design of Experiments
• App. 1. Introduction to statistical methods
• App. 2. Random number generation
• App. 3. Maximum likelihood
• App. 4. Bootstrap methods for confidence intervals
• App. 5. Optimization algorithms App. 6. Theoretical background to CUSUM charts
• App. 7. Derivation of EV1 distribution
• App. 8. Fitting the Wakeby distribution
• App. 9. Expected value of the residual sum of squares
• App. 10. Bayes' linear estimator
• App. 11. Simulating from ARIMA processes
• App. 12. Neyman-Scott streamflow model
• App. 13. Fourier series and transforms
• App. 14. Wavelet transforms
• App. 15. Statistical tables
• App. 16. Selected data tables.