Practical Statistics for Geographers and Earth Scientists

by Walford, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780470849156
• ISBN10: 0470849150
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-25
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Practical Statistics for Geographers and Earth Scientists is a text that all students can work through, regardless of their geography or earth science stream degree pathway and their existing mathematical knowledge. The text demystifies the mathematical component of statistics and presents these techniques in an easy-to-understand fashion. Case studies that illustrate the workings of each technique through photographs and diagrams will help students visualize some of the processes involved. Also covered in the book is a clear explanation of how statistical software packages work.

Author Biography

Nigel Walford has taught Geographical Information Systems courses at Kingston University for 12 years and previously worked in the Data Archive at Essex University. He graduated from the University of Sussex and did his postgraduate work at the University of London. His thematic research interests relate mainly to rural issues and include agriculture, land use planning and population. Recent book publications include Geographical Data Analysis and Reshaping the Countryside: Perceptions and Processes of Rural Change as well as several journal articles in Health and Place, Geography, Planning Practice and Research, Applied Geography and International Journal of Population Geography.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Glossary

I First Principles

What's in a number?

Geographical data: quantity and content

Geographical data: collection and acquisition

Statistical measures (or quantities)

Frequency distributions, probability and hypotheses Flow diagrams

Testing Times

Parametric tests

Non-parametric tests

Forming Relationships

Correlation

Regression

Correlation and regression of spatial data

Selected Reading

Index

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