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Applied Environmental Statistics
June 7 - 11, 2004LOCATION
International Ground Water Modeling Center
Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO
REGISTRATION
Registration is limited.
Registration and a complete course outline is available
at the course web site:
http://www.practicalstats.com/
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This 4.5 day course develops hands-on expertise
for all environmental scientists who interpret data and present their
findings to others. A complete understanding of how statistical
methods work unfolds through applications to field-oriented problems.
Statistical methods are explained in the light of data with nondetects,
outliers, and skewed distributions. Methods for estimation and
prediction are illustrated along with their common pitfalls.
Student exercises follow each lecture to ensure that when you return
to the office, so does your new knowledge.
Course Content:
* Trend analysis -- is it getting better or worse?
* Handling data below detection limits.
* Confidence, prediction, tolerance & equivalence intervals.
* How hypothesis tests work.
* How different are they, and how sure are you?
* How to build a good regression equation-- and when not to.
* Dealing with outliers.
* When are transformations OK?
* How many samples do I need?
* Good graphs
and more.
INSTRUCTORS
Dr. Dennis Helsel (PhD, Environmental Science and Engineering,
Virginia Tech) has 25 years experience applying statistics to
practical issues in environmental sciences. He is the lead author of
the course textbook "Statistical Methods in Water Resources
(Elsevier, 1992), and of the chapter "Statistical Analysis of
Hydrologic Data" in McGraw-Hill's Handbook of Hydrology (1993).
Dr. Helsel is the 2003 recipient of the Distinguished Service Award
from the American Statistical Association's section on Statistics and
the Environment.
Dr. Edward Gilroy (PhD in Mathematical Statistics - Catholic Univ.)
has 35 years experience as a consulting statistician, 30 years within
the US Geological Survey, and coordinated its statistical training.
He now advises private firms and governmental agencies.
Dr. Gilroy has authored numerous papers on applied statistics, and is
coauthor of the chapter "Statistical Analysis of Hydrologic Data" in
McGraw-Hill's Handbook of Hydrology (1993).
COST
Course fee
$1495 for registration .
$1595 starting May 28.
This fee includes a copy on disk of the out-of-print textbook
"Statistical Methods in Water Resources" (Elsevier, 1992)
and all materials, including disks with data and software.
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Edward J. Gilroy, PhD egilroy@diac.com
13453 W. Oregon Ct. phone:303-986-4944
Lakewood, CO. 80228 FAX: 413-702-4639
For training courses:
www.practicalstats.com
For statistical advising & consulting:
egilroy@diac.com
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