Quantitative Methods in Environmental and Climate Research

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cameletti, Michela (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Finazzi, Francesco (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Statistics .; Ecology .; Climate change.; Environmental monitoring.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Theoretical Ecology/Statistics.; Climate Change.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis.

This books presents some of the most recent and advanced statistical methods used to analyse environmental and climate data, and addresses the spatial and spatio-temporal dimensions of the phenomena studied, the multivariate complexity of the data, and the necessity of considering uncertainty source...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Fast Bayesian classification for disease mapping and the detection of disease clusters
• 2 A Novel Hierarchical Multinomial Approach to Modelling Age-specific Harvest Data
• 3 Detection of change points in spatiotemporal data in presence of outliers and heavy-tailed observations
• 4 Modelling spatiotemporal mismatch for Aerosol profiles
• 5 A SPATIOTEMPORAL APPROACH FOR PREDICTING WIND SPEED ALONG THE COAST OF VALPARAISO, CHILE
• 6 Spatiotemporal Precipitation Variability Modeling in the Blue Nile Basin: 1998-2016
• 7 A hidden Markov random field with copula-based emission distributions for the analysis of spatial cylindrical data.