Technical Bulletin No. 0530: Descriptions of Univariate Statistical Models for Use in Environmental Data Analyses and Means for Predicting their Goodness-of-Fit

Environmental processes can be considered stochastic. That is, any event at any time occurs with a certain probability from a specified range of all possible events, and therefore, the data generated from environmental processes can be analyzed statistically by employing an appropriate statistical model. For environmental data analysis, the statistical models used have often been limited to those with normal and lognormal distributions.