Applied Statistics for Civil and Environmental Engineers

Civil and environmental engineers need an understanding of mathematical statistics and probability theory to deal with the variability that affects engineers structures, soil pressures, river flows and the like. Students, too, need to get to grips with these rather difficult concepts.

Applied Statistics for Civil and Environmental Engineers, 2nd Edition, written by engineers for engineers, tackles the subject in a clear, up-to-date manner using a process-orientated approach. It introduces the subjects of mathematical statistics and probability theory, and then addresses model estimation and testing, regression and multivariate methods, analysis of extreme events, simulation techniques, risk and reliability, and economic decision making. 325 examples and case studies from European and American practice are included and each chapter features realistic problems to be solved.  For this edition new sections have been added on Monte Carlo Markov chain modeling with details of practical Gibbs sampling, sensitivity analysis and aleatory and epistemic uncertainties, and copulas.