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1 - Basic Concepts in Probability and Statistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2022

Timothy DelSole  and
Michael Tippett
Timothy DelSole
Affiliation:
George Mason University, Virginia
Michael Tippett
Affiliation:
Columbia University, New York
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This chapter reviews some essential concepts of probability and statistics, including: line plots, histograms, scatter plots, mean, median, quantiles, variance, random variables, probability density function, expectation of a random variable, covariance and correlation, independence the normal distribution (also known as the Gaussian distribution), the chi-square distribution. The above concepts provide the foundation for the statistical methods discussed in the rest of this book.

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probability density functionnormal distributionmeanvarianceexpectation
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Statistical Methods for Climate Scientists , pp. 1 - 29
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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