Statistical Methods and the GeographerThis is a simple introduction to Geography with explanations of methods, not in symbols alone but in words and the methodsa re illustrated from the geographical problems, rather than the fields of economics, sociology, industrial management or pure science. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 5 |
Advantages and disadvantages | 13 |
CHAPTER 3 | 19 |
Variability indices | 37 |
The normal frequency distribution curve and its uses | 45 |
CHAPTER 5 | 67 |
Characteristics of samples | 73 |
Specification of sample size | 84 |
Shorter method of assessment | 146 |
Influence of sample size | 157 |
Alternative method of calculation | 171 |
Correlation significance test | 179 |
CHAPTER 11 | 183 |
CHAPTER 12 | 185 |
Further specific example | 192 |
Calculation of the product moment correlation | 196 |
CHAPTER 7 | 99 |
Variable sampling fractions | 107 |
CHAPTER 8 | 115 |
Standard error of the difference | 121 |
Comparison of coefficients of variation | 130 |
Snedecors Variance Ratio Test | 139 |
Straightline regression for spatial change | 200 |
CHAPTER 13 | 209 |
Deviation from a trend line | 216 |
Rhythmic fluctuations | 224 |
FORMULAE INDEX | 233 |