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The need to understand and quantify change is fundamental throughout the environmental sciences. This might involve describing past variation, understanding the mechanisms underlying observed changes, making projections of possible future change, or monitoring the effect of intervening in some environmental system. This book provides an overview of modern statistical techniques that may be relevant in problems of this nature. Practitioners studying environmental change will be familiar with many classical statistical procedures for the detection and estimation of trends. However, the ever increasing capacity to collect and process vast amounts of environmental information has led to growing awareness that such procedures are limited in the insights that they can deliver. At the same time, significant developments in statistical methodology have often been widely dispersed in the statistical literature and have therefore received limited exposure in the environmental science community. This book aims to provide a thorough but accessible review of these developments. It is split into two parts: the first provides an introduction to this area and the second part presents a collection of case studies illustrating the practical application of modern statistical approaches to the analysis of trends in real studies. Key Features: <ul> <li>Presents a thorough introduction to the practical application and methodology of trend analysis in environmental science.</li> <li>Explores non-parametric estimation and testing as well as parametric techniques.</li> <li>Methods are illustrated using case studies from a variety of environmental application areas.</li> <li>Looks at trends in all aspects of a process including mean, percentiles and extremes.</li> <li>Supported by an accompanying website featuring datasets and R code.</li> </ul> The book is designed to be accessible to readers with some basic statistical training, but also contains sufficient detail to serve as a reference for practising statisticians. It will therefore be of use to postgraduate students and researchers both in the environmental sciences and in statistics.

Statistical Methods for Trend Detection and Analysis in the Environmental Sciences

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 Excerpt: ...et baeredis Richard Patten (alias dicti Bar"bour) de Waynflete, patris praedicti Willielmi de Waynflete, "nuper episcopi, in pura viduatate mea," &c. E Registro Coll. I examined Registr. A without finding it. removed removed his son Humphrey into Lancashire, to provide the family established in this county with an ancestor of eminence. Waynflete, we may remember, has declared that he had demurred whether to found a college, or distribute his goods to the poor in his lifetime. The enriching of his family is not an alternative. No preference is given to, nor provision made for, kinsmen at his college, as by Wykeham; neither is there mention of any relation in his will. Perhaps Juliana Churchstile was the only one remaining, was in affluence, and without children. CHAP c CHAPTER XIII. Proceedings at Magdalen College after the Death of Waynflcte, with an Account of some Benefactors and Members of the Society, particularly Wuley. Sect.I. PTHE desire to promote religion--and learning planted by Way rifle te in his college, having taken root in his lifetime, continued to increase and flourish after his death; and his intention, where the society had knowledge of it, was a rule for their conduct, and fulfilled by them with respectful deference. Among the nobles attainted by the first parliament of Henry the Seventh was lord Lovell, who raised an army, which dispersed on proclamation of pardon in I486; and in the following year he perished in battle. - Baker. Francis lord Lovell was created a viscount 22 Edw. IV, was slain at the battle of Stoke, 3 Hen. VII; when, he having no issue, the title became extinct. The president and scholars celebrated exequies after his death, and were allowed a pittance, as at the same ceremony for lady Danvers ...

The Life of William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester, Lord High Chancellor of England in the Reign of Henry VI, and Founder of Magdalen College, Oxford

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