CE 582 – Statistical Hydrology
Required textbook: Statistical Methods in Water Resources by Dennis R. Helsel, Robert M. Hirsch, Karen R. Ryberg, Stacey A. Archfield, and Edward J. Gilroy (2020) (pdf)
Offered Spring semester every even year
Contents
1 Lectures
- Syllabus review
- Lecture 1: Introduction to statistical hydrology
- Lecture 2: Characteristics and measures of hydrologic data
- Lecture 3: Probability plots
- Lecture 4: Central tendency
- Homework 1: Central tendency
- Lecture 5: Variability
- Lecture 6: Graphical data analysis
- Homework 2: Univariate regression analysis
- Lecture 7: Graphical comparisons and scatterplots
- Exercises 8: Chapter 2
- Lecture 9: Confidence intervals
- Project: Proposal presentation
- Lecture 10: Hypothesis testing
- Homework 3: Hypothesis testing
- Lecture 11: Prediction intervals
- Lecture 12: Normality testing and rank-sum test
- Quiz 1
- Lecture 13: Two-group tests 1
- Lecture 14: Two-group tests 2
- Midterm exam
- Lecture 15: Paired difference tests
- Quiz 2
- Lecture 16: Error structures
- Homework 4: Error structures
- Lecture 17: Error structures in time series
- Lecture 18: Model adequacy
- Lecture 19: Uncertainty analysis