Statistical Analysis Of Weather Modification Experiments

Statistical Analysis of Weather Modification Experiments

Statistical Analysis of Weather Modification Experiments

Developments in probability and mathematical statistics generated by studies in meteorology and weather modification; Some operational considerations in evaluation of weather modification programs: a short excursion into epistemology; Some approaches to statistical analysis of a weather modification experiment; comparing the testing of hypotheses based on lognormal and gamma distributions; A multivariate methodology for the analysis of weather modification experiments; Physically meaningful covariates; Some statistical aspects of weather modification studies; Limitations of statistics in weather modification; Comments on the reanalysis of the santa barbara II cloud seeding experiments; Comments on the discussion at the workshop on the statistical design and analysis of weather modification experiments; Response to the discussion.

Methods and Applications of Statistics in the Atmospheric and Earth Sciences

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