Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences

Daniel S. Wilks has been a member of the Atmospheric Sciences faculty at Cornell University since 1987, and is the author of Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences (2011, Academic Press), which is in its third edition and has been continuously in print since 1995. Research areas include statistical forecasting, forecast postprocessing, and forecast evaluation.

1. Introduction2. Review of Probability3. Empirical Distributions and Exploratory Data Analysis4. Parametric Probability Distributions5. Frequentist Statistical Inference6. Bayesian Inference7. Statistical Forecasting8. Ensemble Forecasting9. Forecast Verification10. Time Series11. Matrix Algebra and Random Matrices12. Multivariate Normal Distribution13. Principal Component (EOF) Analysis14. Linear multivariate analysis of vector pairs: CCA, MCA, and RA15. Discrimination and Classification16. Cluster Analysis