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
- Exercise 1: Chapter 2
- Lecture 8: Confidence intervals
- Project: Proposal presentation
- Lecture 9: Hypothesis testing
- Homework 3: Hypothesis testing
- Lecture 10: Prediction intervals
- Lecture 11: Normality testing and rank-sum test
- Quiz 1
- Lecture 12: Two-group tests 1
- Lecture 13: Two-group tests 2
- Midterm exam
- Lecture 14: Paired difference tests
- Quiz 2
- Lecture 15: Error structures
- Homework 4: Error structures
- Lecture 16: Error structures in time series
- Lecture 17: Model adequacy
- Lecture 18: Uncertainty analysis
- Lecture 19: Separation of uncertainty sources
- Lecture 20: Evaluation of prediction intervals
- Project: Project update
- Lecture 21: Markov chain Monte Carlo
- Quiz 3
- Lecture 22: Generalized likelihood uncertainty estimation
- Quiz 4
- Project: Independent work
- Project: Final presentation
- RAWCS annual meeting