March 2011 attended a 3 day statistical class - EPA’s Unified Guidance: Statistical Analysis of Groundwater Data by Dr. Kirk Cameron (one of the primary authors of the Unified Guidance) offered though Northwest Environmental Training Center. I started a "Short" write up of the class for work. After 6 moths it grew into the statistical primer below.
· Class handouts with my notes
· Summary of what I learned – A Statistical Primer for Geologists and Environmental Scientists
Some of the topics covered in the Statistical Primer for Geologists and Envrionmental Scientists are:
· Dealing with non-detects,
· Data sets with 100% non-detects,
· Outliers,
· Reducing the number of tests & increasing the statistical power,
· Resampling approaches
· Identifying and removing seasonal trends
· Updating background data sets
· and.... you will find out about the lady I dated that was 1 in a 1,000. Heck, you got to read it just to find out about her!!