Statistical Methods for Geography: A Student's Guide (Paperback)

by Peter A. Rogerson (Author)
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" 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."  

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"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." 

(Professor Ron Johnson ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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 (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #378,603 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Jane Err (Northern Virginia) - See all my reviews

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...

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

By	Jess Clark "J. Clark" (Salt Lake City, UT) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.