Statistics in geography and environmental science / (Record no. 8689)

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International Standard Book Number 9780131789333 (pbk.)
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Classification number 910.015195 HAR
Edition number 23
Item number 008613
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Personal name Harris, Richard.
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Title Statistics in geography and environmental science /
Statement of responsibility, etc Richard Harris, Claire Jarvis.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Routledge,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2013.
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Extent xvii, 262 pages :
Other physical details illustrations, maps ;
Dimensions 25 cm.
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Formatted contents note Machine generated contents note: 1.Data, statistics and geography<br/>Chapter overview<br/>Learning objectives<br/>1.1.Statistics: a brief introduction<br/>1.2.Why you should study statistics<br/>1.3.Types of statistic<br/>1.4.Analysis and error<br/>1.5.Geographical data and analysis<br/>1.6.Some problems when analysing geographical data<br/>Key points<br/>References<br/>2.Descriptive statistics<br/>2.1.Data and variables<br/>2.2.Simple ways to make sense of and present data<br/>2.3.Some useful notation<br/>2.4.A second data set<br/>2.5.Measures of central tendency<br/>2.6.Some measures of spread and variation<br/>2.7.Presenting the centre and spread of data<br/>2.8.Types of numeric data<br/>2.9.Conclusion<br/>3.The normal curve<br/>3.1.Introducing the normal curve<br/>3.2.Models, error and uncertainty<br/>3.3.Why are the data [approximately] normal?<br/>Contents note continued: 3.4.Important properties of a normal curve<br/>3.5.An experiment<br/>3.6.Probability and the normal curve<br/>3.7.Worked examples<br/>3.8.z values and the standard normal curve<br/>3.9.Signs of non-normality<br/>3.10.Moments of a distribution<br/>3.11.The quantile plot<br/>3.12.Conclusion<br/>4.Sampling<br/>4.1.Introduction<br/>4.2.The process of sampling, phase 1: scope and scale<br/>4.3.The process of sampling, phase 1: issues<br/>4.4.The process of sampling, phase 2: sampling method<br/>4.5.Sampling methods: issues and practicalities<br/>5.From description to inference<br/>5.1.About inference<br/>5.2.A measure of unreliability<br/>5.3.What is a population?<br/>5.4.A geographical example<br/>5.5.A thought experiment<br/>5.6.Why the thought experiment is useful<br/>5.7.Calculating the standard error<br/>5.8.Confidence intervals<br/>Contents note continued: 5.9.Consolidation and worked examples<br/>5.10.Finding a 99.9% or any other confidence interval<br/>5.11.Calculating a confidence interval for a small sample<br/>5.12.Conclusion<br/>6.Hypothesis testing<br/>6.1.Detecting difference<br/>6.2.Hypothesis testing and the one-sample t test<br/>6.3.One-tailed tests of difference<br/>6.4.Power, error and research design<br/>6.5.The two-sample t test and the F test<br/>6.6.Additional notes about the t test<br/>6.7.Analysis of variance<br/>6.8.Non-parametric tests<br/>6.9.Conclusion: from detection to explanation<br/>7.Relationships and explanations<br/>7.1.Looking for relationships<br/>7.2.Using scatter plots<br/>7.3.Independent and dependent variables<br/>7.4.Correlation<br/>7.5.Complications with the correlation coefficient<br/>7.6.Bivariate [two-variable] regression<br/>Contents note continued: 7.7.Interpreting regression analysis<br/>7.8.Assumptions of regression analysis<br/>7.9.Checking the residuals<br/>7.10.What to do if the residuals do not meet the regression assumptions<br/>7.11.Multiple regression<br/>7.12.Interpreting multiple regression<br/>7.13.Assumptions of multiple regression<br/>7.14.Partial regression plots<br/>7.15.A strategy for multiple regression<br/>7.16.The strength of the effects and the problem of `too much power'<br/>7.17.Using the F test to compare regression models<br/>7.18.Uses of regression<br/>7.19.Other types of regression model<br/>8.Detecting and managing spatial dependency<br/>8.1.Introduction<br/>8.2.Why does spatial dependency matter in the context of quantitative geographical analyses?<br/>8.3.Looking for spatial autocorrelation<br/>8.4.Global measures of spatial autocorrelation<br/>8.5.Other measures of global autocorrelation<br/>8.6.Conclusion<br/>Contents note continued: Key points<br/>9.Exploring spatial relationships<br/>9.1.Introduction<br/>9.2.Mapping with cartograms<br/>9.3.Spatial analysis and spatial autocorrelation<br/>9.4.Who's my neighbour? Defining a weights matrix<br/>9.5.Spatial error model<br/>9.6.Spatial lagged y model<br/>9.7.Geographically weighted regression [GWR]<br/>9.8.Local indicator of spatial association [LISA]<br/>9.9.Modelling at multiple scales<br/>9.10.Geography, computation and statistics<br/>References.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Geography
General subdivision Statistical methods.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environmental sciences
General subdivision Statistical methods.
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Personal name Jarvis, Claire.
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