During the last 20 years geologists have used statistical methods mainly as an aid in summarizing large numbers of observations in petrology and also to some extent in other fields. In addition to ...

The course provides a precise and accurate treatment of statistical ideas, methods and techniques. Topics covered are sampling distributions of statistics, point estimation, interval estimation, ...

Random effects models play an important role in model-based small area estimation. Random effects account for any lack of fit of a regression model for the population means of small areas on a set of ...