Statistical Analysis for Geographers
Published on 1. January 1991
Book
Hardback
496 pages
978-0-13-844184-5 (ISBN)
Description
Covers principles of statistics with spatial (geographic) applications. The text is appropriate for statistics courses found in geography departments.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
864 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-844184-5 (9780138441845)
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Content
I. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS. 1. Introduction and Background. 2. Data and Measurement. 3. Descriptive Classical Statistics: Elementary Summaries. 4. Descriptive Classical Statistics: Central Tendency, Dispersion, and Relationship. 5. Descriptive Spatial Statistics: Central Tendency, Dispersion, and Relationship. 6. An Excursion into Elementary Probability Theory. 7. Selected Theoretical Frequency Distributions. II. THE FOUNDATIONS OF INFERENTIAL STATISTICS. 8. Sampling Designs. 9. Essential Concepts for Inferential Statistics. 10. Simple Hypothesis Testing. 11. Complex Hypothesis Testing. 12. Simple Linear Regression. III. A TRANSITION TO MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS. 13. Multiple Linear Regression. 14. An Introduction to Analysis of Covariance. 15. An Introduction to Trend Surface Analysis. 16. Cluster Analysis: An Introduction to Objective Grouping Techniques. Bibliography. Appendices. Index.