Statistics for Geography and Environmental Science

ISBN-13: 9780131789333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 280 str.

Richard Harris

Opis

Statistics are important tools for validating theory, making predictions and engaging in policy research. They help to provide informed commentary about social and environmental issues, and to make the case for change. Knowledge of statistics is therefore a necessary skill for any student of geography or environmental science. This textbook is aimed at students on a degree course taking a module in statistics for the first time. It focuses on analysing, exploring and making sense of data in areas of core interest to physical and human geographers, and to environmental scientists. It covers the subject in a broadly conventional way from descriptive statistics, through inferential statistics to relational statistics but does so with an emphasis on applied data analysis throughout.

Spis treści

 

Preface

 

Chapter 1 Data, statistics and geography

 

Chapter 2 Descriptive statistics

 

Chapter 3 The Normal curve

 

Chapter 4 Sampling

 

Chapter 5 From description to inference

 

Chapter 6 Hypothesis testing

 

Chapter 7 Relationships and Explanations

 

Chapter 8    Detecting and managing spatial dependency

 

Chapter 9    Exploring spatial relationships

 

O autorze

Richard Harris