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1、STATISTICALDATAANALYSISFOROCEANANDATMOSPHERICSCIENCESH.JeanThiébauxDepartmentofMeteorologyPennsylvaniaStateUniversityUniversityPark,Pennsylvania**CurrentAddress:FortWashington,Maryland®ACADEMICPRESSSanDiegoNewYorkBostonLondonSydneyTokyoTorontoMM*MINITABisaregisteredtrademarkofMinitabInc.,3
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4、cationDataThiébaux,H.J.StatisticalDataanalysisforoceanandatmosphericsciences/byH.JeanThiébaux.p.cm.Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.ISBN0-12-686925-1ISBN0-12-686926-X(Diskette)1.Oceanography-Statisticalmethods.2.Heterology-Statisticalmethods.I.Title.GC10.4.S7T481994551.46O072-dc20
5、94-10463CIPPRINTEDINTHEUNITEDSTATESOFAMERICA949596979899QW987654321Tothememoryofmygrandfather,FrankLoxleyGriffin,andhisgiftforteachingmathematicstostudentsoftheartsandsciences.PREFACEScientificknowledgeoftheoceansandatmospherecomesfrominterpreta-tionsofdata—withalltheirattendanterrors.Thec
6、hallengetoscientistsistofiltertruthfromdata.Sometimesthevaluesofadatasetaresequen-tiallyorspatiallycorrelated;generallythedataaregatheredfromdiverseobservingsystemswithinhomogeneouserrorproperties;andalwayswelack"insiderinformation"onthedetailsoftheirstatisticalstructure.Thevalidityofdeduc
7、tionsaboutthetruthdependsonthefinessewithwhichdatasetsarehandled,andthisisthebusinessofstatisticaldataanalysis.StatisticalDataAnalysisforOceanandAtmosphericSciencesisanuncommonintroductiontomethodsofstatisticalanalysis.Itisathinkingperson'sguidetoscientificinf