Statistics in geography and environmental science /
By: Harris, Richard [author.].
Contributor(s): Jarvis, Claire [author.].
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon, England : Routledge, 2013Description: xvii, 262 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780131789333; 9780131789333:; 0131789333.Subject(s): Geography -- Statistical methods | Environmental sciences -- Statistical methodsDDC classification: 910.015195Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Originally published by Pearson Education Limited in 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- About this book -- Data, statistics and geography -- Descriptive statistics -- The normal curve -- Sampling -- From description to inference -- Hypothesis testing -- Relationships and explanations -- Detecting and managing spatial dependency -- Exploring spatial relationships -- Epilogue.
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.