1st Edition

Statistics for Geography and Environmental Science

By Richard Harris, Claire Jarvis Copyright 2011
    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

     

    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

     

    Biography

    Richard Harris