GEOL 351/651 Statistics for Geoscientists, Fall 2016

Introduction Course structure About the instructor About you Homework for Friday

Class web page: http://one.geol.umd.edu/sg/ readings user name: sg (case sensitive)

readings password: fall2016 (case sensitive)

Experimental design

Positioning of the EarthScope portable seismometer array (USArray), www.usarray.org/researchers/obs/transportable, as of 8/28/12

Statistical testing and inference

Li et al, Tellus A, 59(5), 591-598 (2007)

Data analysisB

londes et al, EP

SL

269:140-154 (2008)

Assumptions and uncertainty

Source: “Wikipedia: Gare Montparnasse”, http:// en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Gare_Montparnasse, accessed 8/29/10

About the course

Course web pages:[http://one.geol.umd.edu/www/sg/]

readings username: sg (case sensitive)readings password: fall2016 (case sensitive)

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About the Instructor Mike Evans (Paleoclimatology)

Assoc. Prof., Geology/ESSIC, Maryland, 2008-

Affiliate appointments in Oceanic and Atmospheric Sci. and Applied Math and Scientific Computing

Research interests: tropical climate change, data modeling, climate field reconstruction, error analysis and modeling

Very little formal training in statistics!

but a regular user.

My other bosses

Time/Money Pit

About you

Summary: Course introduction

Statistics helps geoscientists to – Design experiments/sample distributions– Make inferences and decisions– Describe uncertainty.

8/31: Introduction to programming with Matlab 9/2: Problem set 1 due at beginning of class (hard copy)

– Discussion: the scientific method and statistics

course homepage: http://one.geol.umd.edu/www/sg/readings username: sg (case sensitive)

readings password: fall2016 (case sensitive)