Probability Distributions in Environmental Studies

This lecture covers stochastic processes, random variables, and inferential statistics in the context of air pollution and climate change. It discusses probability models, probability distributions for continuous random variables, and characterizing random variables with expected value and variance. The lecture also explores nonparametric and parametric distributions like uniform, normal, and lognormal distributions. Descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, and hypothesis testing are explained, along with extreme values detection and accommodation.