Statistics in Geography has established itself as the best introductory textbook on the subject: the author makes statistical concepts and techniques intellible and their applications in a wide variety of problems comprehensible, even exciting. The main feature of this much-awaited new edition is a set of 17 computer programs (with sample outputs) that cover nearly all the statistical techniques described. These have been carefully written to be user-friendly in an elementary subset of Basic to make them simple to implement on most micro computers. This means students can be more adventurous in their applications and interpretations of statistical techniques. The author has, at the same time, retained all the worked examples in the book so that the reader can gain insight into the logic of the methds by working through them by hand. These, together with problems of various levels of complexity plus comprehensive answers at the back of the book, provide the student with a clear and thorough understanding of both the methods and their potential applications.
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‘… the book is one of the most successful among statistical geography texts in achieving its aim of a clear, painless, and well-illustrated introduction to difficult concepts.’ Geographical Analysis
‘Highly recommended for its clarity and exemplification … the author and publishers have certainly made the text clear, easily readable an interesting with many good figures and tables, worked examples and directly related exercises with 18 pages of answers and explanations to the latter.’ Royal Statistical Society
‘The features I particularly like are the number of examples and class exercises, the constant attempts to relate each method back to statistical theory, and the useful diagrams. The author succeeds at showing why statistical tests have sampling distributions, produces some outstanding diagrams to illustrate linear regression, and has a fine set of statistical tables.’ Journal of Geography
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Statistics in Geography has established itself as the best introductory textbook on the subject: the author makes statistical concepts and techniques intellible and their applications in a wide variety of problems comprehensible, even exciting. The main feature of this much-awaited new edition is a set of 17 computer programs (with sample outputs) that cover nearly all the statistical techniques described. These have been carefully written to be user-friendly in an elementary subset of Basic to make them simple to implement on most micro computers. This means students can be more adventurous in their applications and interpretations of statistical techniques. The author has, at the same time, retained all the worked examples in the book so that the reader can gain insight into the logic of the methds by working through them by hand. These, together with problems of various levels of complexity plus comprehensive answers at the back of the book, provide the student with a clear and thorough understanding of both the methods and their potential applications.
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I use this book in conjunction with An Introduction to Statistical Problem Solving in Geography by cross referencing information. It works out pretty good for me. Of course this book is a bit older and some of the computer information is outdated but the gist of it is the same. I do recommend this book, especially if you can get it at a great price.
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It is difficult to give a satisfactory definition of statistics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
weighted mean centre, data checking routine, standard deviational ellipse, sampling null hypothesis, type correct value, median centre, samples variance estimate, neighbour index, null hypothesis situation, areal data, directional alternative hypothesis, critical value the null hypothesis, chosen significance level, neighbour analysis, standard deviates, observed arrangement, tied ranks, lower critical value, standard normal deviate, shape indices, appropriate critical value, minimum travel, spatial autocorrelation, population coefficient, scatter graph Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Example Output, Program Listing, Factory Road, The Squerries, Albert Road, Victoria Road, Computer Program Program, Computer Programs Program, National Democratic, New Commonwealth New!
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It is difficult to give a satisfactory definition of statistics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
weighted mean centre, data checking routine, standard deviational ellipse, sampling null hypothesis, type correct value, median centre, samples variance estimate, neighbour index, null hypothesis situation, areal data, directional alternative hypothesis, critical value the null hypothesis, chosen significance level, neighbour analysis, standard deviates, observed arrangement, tied ranks, lower critical value, standard normal deviate, shape indices, appropriate critical value, minimum travel, spatial autocorrelation, population coefficient, scatter graph Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Example Output, Program Listing, Factory Road, The Squerries, Albert Road, Victoria Road, Computer Program Program, Computer Programs Program, National Democratic, New Commonwealth New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Situations in Human Geography by John Peter Cole on page 70, and Back Matter
- Political Geography: World-economy, Nation-state and Locality (5th Edition) by Colin Flint in Back Matter
- Karst Geomorphology by J. N. Jennings in Back Matter
- Physical Geography by K J Gregory in Back Matter
- Quantitative Techniques in Geography: An Introduction by R. Hammond in Back Matter
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