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Risk Analysis in Water Engineering - CVEN7824
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.civeng.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 3
 
 
EFTSL: 0.062 (more info)
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 21
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Exclusion: CVEN9880
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Introduction to the theory of probability; joint, marginal and conditional probability; commonly used probability distributions; expectations and estimation of model parameters; hypothesis testing and confidence limits; uses in water and coastal engineering - applications to flood design, monte carlo simulation, bootstrap, and hydrological, human and environmental risk assessment.

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