MATH 523 Environmental Statistics
Aims to provide an introduction to the types of statistical analyses used in environmental studies. Topics include collecting environmental data with special emphasis on inaccessible and sensitive data, population size estimation, sampling in the wild such as quadrat, recapture, transect and adaptive sampling, composite sampling, ranked set sampling, examining environmental effects by regression-type models, statistical verifiability of environmental standards and regulations, time series, longitudinal, spatial, and temporal methods for the environmental processes. Prerequisite: MATH 320 or permission of the department chairperson.