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== Photograph ==
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== Authors ==
[http://www.history-of-hydrology.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=Yevjevich,_V_M Yevjevich, Vujica M.]

== Editions, Dates ==
1972
Reprint Edition 2010

== Publisher, Place ==
Water Resource Publications, Highlands Ranch, Colorado, USA

== ISBN ==
ISBN-13: 978-1887201605  (Reprint Edition, 2010)

==Contents ==

'''1 CHARACTERISTICS OF HYDROLOGIC PHENOMENA'''
*Deterministic and Stochastic Processes of Hydrology
*Probability, Determinism and Hydrology
*Hydrologic Data
*Hydrologic Magnitudes and Cause-Effect Relations
*Stochastic Nature of Water Demand
*Problems for Discussion and Solutions

'''2 RANDOM VARIABLES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTIONS'''
*Probability and Random Phenomena of Hydrology
*Approaches to Probability, and Hydrology
*Random Events
*Random Variables
*Univariate Distributions
*Distributions of Bivariates, Multivariates, and Conditional Variables
*Distributions of Functions of Random Variables 
*Problems for Discussion and Solutions

'''3 VARIOUS PROBABILITY TOPICS APPLIED TO HYDROLOGY'''
*Combinatorial Analysis
*Geometric Probabilities
*Applications of the Theorem of Total Probability and the Bayes's Theorem
*Limit Theorems
*Markov Chains
*Mathematical Expectation, and Variance of Random Variables 
*Law of Large Numbers
*Problems for Discussion and Solutions

'''4 STATISTICS AND HYDROLOGY'''
*Relationship of Statistics to Probability Theory
*Statistics as Description Numbers
*Mathematical Statistical Models
*Statistics in Hydrology
*Problems for Discussion and Solutions

'''5 EMPIRICAL DISTRIBUTIONS OF HYDROLOGIC VARIABLES'''
*Frequency and Cumulative Frequency Curves of Univariates .
*Plotting Empirical Univariate Distributions of Ungrouped Data
*Multivariate Frequency Distributions
*Methods of Presentation and Analysis of Empirical Distributions
*Qualitative Analysis of Frequency Distributions
*Problems for Discussion and Solutions

'''6 PARAMETERS AND ORDER-STATISTICS AS DESCRIPTORS OF DISTRIBUTIONS'''
*Parameters and Order-Statistics
*Descriptors of Central Tendency 
*Descriptors of Dispersion
*Descriptors of Asymmetry
*Descriptors of Flatness
*Application Areas of Descriptors of Univariate Distributions in Hydrology and Water Resources
*Descriptors of Distributions of Bivariates, Multivariates, and Conditional Variables
*Problems for Discussion and Solutions

'''7 PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS IN HYDROLOGY'''
*Functions for Fitting Empirical Frequency Distributions ....
*Properties and Classification of Probability Distriburion Functions
*Binomial Distribution
*Poisson Distribution
*Normal Distribution
*Lognormal Distribution
*Gamma Distributions
*Extreme Value Distributions
*Other Univariate Distribution Functions, and Concluding Remarks
*Distribution Functions for Bivariates, Multivariates, and Conditional Variables
*Problems for Discussion and Solutions

'''8 ESTIMATION METHODS'''
*Definitions and Properties of Estimates
*Graphical Estimation Method 
*Least-Squares Estimation Method
*Method of Moments
*Maximum Likelihood Method
*Problems for Discussion and Solutions

'''9 SAMPLING THEORY'''
*Basic Definitions and Approaches
*Parameters of Distributions of Basic Statistics
*Sampling Distribution Functions
*Confidence and Tolerance Intervals and Limits
*Content of Information in Various Parameters
*Problems for Discussion and Solutions

'''10 TESTING HYPOTHESES AND GOODNESS OF FIT'''
*Definitions of Hypotheses and Their Testing
*Testing Simple and Composite Hypotheses
*Testing the Goodness of Fit of Probability Functions to Empirical Distributions
*Problems for Discussion and Solutions

'''11 CORRELATION AND REGRESSION'''
*Definitions of Correlation and Regression
*Linear Bivariate Correlation
*Spurious Correlation and Interstation Correlation
*Linear Bivariate Regression
*Nonlinear Correlation and Regression
*Multiple Linear Correlation and Regression Analysis
*Problems for Discussion and Solutions

'''12 MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS'''
*Types of Multivariate Analyses
*Multivariate Analysis by Principal Components
*Multivariate Factor Analysis
*Multivariate Canonical Analysis
*Problems for Discussion

REFERENCES
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