Applied Statistics for Civil and Environmental Engineers - Couverture rigide

Kottegoda, N. T.; Rosso, R.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1405179171 ISBN 13 : 9781405179171

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008

Synopsis

Rare book

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Nath Kottegoda has been a Visiting Professor at thePolitecnico di Milano since 1990. He obtained a first–class honoursdegree in civil engineering from the University of London as anexternal student from Sri Lanka. After professional experience instructural, irrigation and water engineering, he received MSc andPhD degrees from the Department of Civil Engineering, University ofBirmingham, where he subsequently lectured. He has also taught andconducted research at several universities in the US, Italy, Indiaand Australia. He is the author of Stochastic Water ResourcesTechnology, reviewed in the US as a classic, and coauthor of theforthcoming book Extremes of Nature An Approach usingCopulas.

Renzo Rosso has been Professor of Water Engineering atthe Politecnico di Milano since 1986. He received a degree inhydraulic engineering from the University of Genoa in 1975 and hasconducted research and taught at the National Research Council ofItaly, the Universities of Genoa and Florence, the University ofForeigners of Perugia and Colorado State University. He is theauthor of several books and over one hundred refereed papers. Hisprofessional experience includes projects on mitigation ofhydrological hazards and water system analysis, planning and designin Europe, Africa and South America.

Quatrième de couverture :

Civil and environmental engineers need an understanding ofmathematical statistics and probability theory to deal with thevariability that affects engineers structures, soilpressures, river flows and the like. Students, too, need to get togrips with these rather difficult concepts.

This book, written by engineers for engineers,tackles the subject in a clear, up–to–date manner using aprocess–orientated approach. It introduces the subjects ofmathematical statistics and probability theory, and then addressesmodel estimation and testing, regression and multivariate methods,analysis of extreme events, simulation techniques, risk andreliability, and economic decision making.

325 examples and case studies from European and Americanpractice are included and each chapter features realistic problemsto be solved.

For the second edition new sections have been added on MonteCarlo Markov chain modeling with details of practical Gibbssampling, sensitivity analysis and aleatory and epistemicuncertainties, and copulas. Throughout, the text has been revisedand modernized.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1405179171
• ISBN 13: 9781405179171
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 736