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Statistical Methods for Geography

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Erschienen am 03.06.2021, Auflage: 1/2021
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ISBN/EAN: 9781529700213
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 432 S.
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Statistical Methods for Geography is the essential introduction for geography students looking to fully understand and apply key statistical concepts and techniques. Now in its fifth edition, this text is an accessible statistics 101 focused on student learning, and includes definitions, examples, and exercises throughout. Fully integrated with online self-assessment exercises and video overviews, it explains everything required to get full credits for any undergraduate statistics module.

 

The fifth edition of this bestselling text includes:

·        Coverage of descriptive statistics, probability, inferential statistics, hypothesis testing and sampling, variance, correlation, regression analysis, spatial patterns, spatial data reduction using factor analysis and cluster analysis.

·        New examples from physical geography and additional real-world examples.

·        Updated in-text and online exercises along with downloadable datasets.

 

This is the only text youll need for undergraduate courses in statistical analysis, statistical methods, and quantitative geography.

 

 

 

Inhalt

1 INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL METHODS FOR GEOGRAPHY
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The scientific method
1.3 Exploratory and confirmatory approaches in geography
1.4 Probability and statistics
1.5 Descriptive and inferential methods
1.6 The nature of statistical thinking
1.7 Special considerations for spatial data
1.8 The structure of the book
1.9 Datasets
2 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
2.1 Types of data
2.2 Visual descriptive methods
2.3 Measures of central tendency
2.4 Measures of variability
2.5 Other numerical measures for describing data
2.6 Descriptive spatial statistics
2.7 Descriptive statistics in SPSS 25 for Windows
Solved exercises
Exercises
3 PROBABILITY AND DISCRETE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Sample spaces, random variables, and probabilities
3.3 Binomial processes and the binomial distribution
3.4 The geometric distribution
3.5 The Poisson distribution
3.6 The hypergeometric distribution
3.7 Binomial tests in SPSS 25 for Windows
Solved exercises
Exercises
4 CONTINUOUS PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS AND PROBABILITY MODELS
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The uniform or rectangular distribution
4.3 The normal distribution
4.4 The exponential distribution
4.5 Summary of discrete and continuous distributions
4.6 Probability models
Solved exercises
Exercises
5 INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: CONFIDENCE INTERVALS, HYPOTHESIS TESTING, AND SAMPLING
5.1 Introduction to inferential statistics
5.2 Confidence intervals
5.3 Hypothesis testing
5.4 Distributions of the random variable and distributions of the test statistic
5.5 Spatial data and the implications of nonindependence
5.6 Further discussion of the effects of deviations from the assumptions
5.7 Sampling
5.8 Some tests for spatial measures of central tendency and variability
5.9 One-sample tests of means in SPSS 25 for Windows
5.10 Two-sample t-tests in SPSS 25 for Windows
Solved exercises
Exercises
6 ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Illustrations
6.3 Analysis of variance with two categories
6.4 Testing the assumptions
6.5 Consequences of failure to meet assumptions
6.6 The nonparametric KruskalWallis test
6.7 The nonparametric median test
6.8 Contrasts
6.9 One-way ANOVA in SPSS 25 for Windows
6.10 One-way ANOVA in Excel
Solved exercises
Exercises
7 CORRELATION
7.1 Introduction and examples of correlation
7.2 More illustrations
7.3 A significance test for r
7.4 The correlation coefficient and sample size
7.5 Spearmans rank correlation coefficient
7.6 Additional topics
7.7 Correlation in SPSS 25 for Windows
7.8 Correlation in Excel
Solved exercises
Exercises
8 DATA REDUCTION: FACTOR ANALYSIS AND CLUSTER ANALYSIS
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Factor analysis and principal components analysis
8.3 Cluster analysis
8.4 Data reduction methods in SPSS 25 for Windows
Exercises
9 INTRODUCTION TO REGRESSION ANALYSIS
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Fitting a regression line to a set of bivariate data
9.3 Regression in terms of explained and unexplained sums of squares
9.4 Assumptions of regression
9.5 Standard error of the estimate
9.6 Tests for ß
9.7 Illustration: state aid to secondary schools
9.8 Linear versus nonlinear models
9.9 Regression in SPSS 25 for Windows
9.10 Regression in Excel
Solved exercises
Exercises
10 MORE ON REGRESSION
10.1 Multiple regression
10.2 Misspecification error
10.3 Dummy variables
10.4 Multiple regression illustration: species in the Galápagos Islands
10.5 Variable selection
10.6 Regression analysis on component scores
10.7 Categorical dependent variable
10.8 A summary of some problems that can arise in regression analysis
10.9 Multiple and logistic regression in SPSS 25 for Windows
Exercises
11 SPATIAL DATA, SPATIAL PATTERNS, AND SPATIAL REGRESSION
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The analysis of point patterns
11.3 Geographic patterns in areal data
11.4 Local statistics
11.5 Introduction to spatial aspects of regression
11.6 Spatial lag model and neighborhood-based explanatory variables
11.7 Spatial regression: autocorrelated errors
11.8 Geographically weighted regression
11.9 Illustration
11.10 Finding Morans I using SPSS 25 for Windows
11.11 Finding Morans I using GeoDa
11.12 Spatial Regression with GeoDa 1.4.6
Exercises
EPILOGUE
ANSWERS FOR SELECTED EXERCISES
APPENDIX A: STATISTICAL TABLES
APPENDIX B: MATHEMATICAL CONVENTIONS AND NOTATION
Bibliography
Index

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