Statistical Methods for Geography: A Student's Guide [Paperback]

Peter A. Rogerson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 27, 2006 | ISBN-10: 1412907969 | ISBN-13: 978-1412907965 | Edition: 2nd

"The First Edition of Statistical Methods for Geography provided an excellent introduction to the statistical analysis of spatial data. The second edition is even better - providing more material on probability and on descriptive statistics as well as more exercises. I would recommend this strongly as a text for introductory statistics courses in geography. It is currently the best on the market by far."
 - A. Stewart Fotheringham, National University of Ireland, Maynooth

 

The Second Edition of this bestselling text has been completely revised and updated. It provides a systematic introduction to the principal methods and techniques that students must understand to complete a statistics course.

Features new to this edition include:

• More introductory material especially in a new chapter on descriptive statistics, and much-expanded introductory chapters
• More exercises and illustrative examples within the chapters
• SPSS for Windows and EXCEL used to illustrate the applied use of the methods
• A companion Web site for lecturers and students is available at www.sagepub.co.uk/rogerson. The password-protected lecturer section contains answers to questions from the book. There are also downloadable-datasets and study skills for students.

Editorial Reviews

Review

" Peter Rogerson has provided us with an accessible introduction to the main statistical procedures used by geographers, along with valuable illustrations of how these can be applied using SPSS for Windows. As a primer in statistical analysis for geographers it will be widely used and appreciated."  

About the Author

Peter A. Rogerson is Professor of Geography and holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Biostatistics, at the University at Buffalo, USA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd; 2nd edition (January 27, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1412907969
• ISBN-13: 978-1412907965
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #939,898 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bad errors = bad book, October 19, 2007

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Jane Err (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Statistical Methods for Geography: A Student's Guide (Paperback)

Our graduate school is using the version of this book (2d edition, reprinted 2007)for the first time this semester (fall 2007). There are SO many errors, the professor has stopped assigning the book's problems without checking them first. Even the examples and the text are rife with mistakes. There is no erratum listed at the publishers web site to aid the poor souls befuddled by this material. The other big problem with the book is that there are no answers presented for the problems at the end of the chapters, so a student has to wait for the instructor to provide the correct answers. So someone purchasing this book without the benefit of being in school is flat out of luck. There is nothing worse than being faced with a difficult topic and never knowing if it is because the publisher/author were sloppy or if the student has not yet grasped the subject. The biggest irony is that this book has been reprinted every year, except for one, since 2001 (six reprints!). Maybe the publisher/author are correcting only a few problems in each version and hopefully can get it right by the 20th reprinting...

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating Book, April 3, 2005

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Paula Bischoff (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Statistical Methods for Geography (Paperback)

Unless you are proficient in statistics, this book will be very frustrating for students. I have trouble finding adequate explanations and definitions, and I am supposed to know this stuff. Their are numerous editing mistakes which adds to the students frustration, and could someone provide an answer key to the assignments. It reinforces the inability of some to understand how and what students need to learn.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not so good, October 7, 2005

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Jess Clark "J. Clark" (Salt Lake City, UT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Statistical Methods for Geography (Paperback)

Like another reviewer said, this book leave a lot of holes for the reader to figure out. The text is confusing, there are a number of mistakes in the numbers, and I find it easier to Google some of the topics rather than try to figure out what Rogerson is trying to say in the text.