Elementary Statistics for Geographers, Second Edition

by Burt, James E.; Barber, Gerald M.

• ISBN13: 9780898629996
• ISBN10: 0898629993
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-16
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Statistics courses frequently gloss over the foundations of statistical analysis and concentrate solely on method. As a result, students are able to perform the techniques, but do not know when to utilize them or how to interpret results incorporating statistical methods. Designed to give geography students a solid understanding of key statistical concepts, this in-depth text both presents basic techniques and fully explores their meaning and importance. Structured for optimal classroom use, the book includes helpful student exercises with answer keys. Four broad sections provide comprehensive coverage of descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, statistical relationships between two variables, and modern methods of analysis.

Author Biography

Gerald M. Barber currently teaches in the Department of Geography at Queen's University in Canada.

Table of Contents

Statistics and Geography

Descriptive Statistics

Univariate Descriptive Statistics

Descriptive Statistics for Spatial Distributions

Concepts of Time Series Analysis

Inferential Statistics

Elementary Probability Theory

Random Variables and Probability Distributions

Sampling

Parametric Statistical Inference: Estimation

Parametric Statistical Inference: Hypothesis Testing

Parametric Statistical Inference: Two Sample Tests

Nonparametric Statistics

Statistical Relationships between Two Variables

Correlation Analysis

Introduction to Regression Analysis

Inferential Aspects of Regression Analysis

Time Series Analysis

Exploratory Data Analysis

Computer-Intensive Methods

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