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| Publisher | Taylor And Francis Inc |
| ISBN 13 | 9781498758819 |
| ISBN 10 | 1498758819 |
| Book Description | This book is aimed directly at students of geography, particularly those who lack confidence in manipulating numbers. The aim is not to teach the mathematics behind statistical tests, but to focus on the logic, so that students can choose the most appropriate tests, apply them in the most convenient way and make sense of the results. Introductory chapters explain how to use statistical methods and then the tests are arranged according to the type of data that they require. Diagrams are used to guide students toward the most appropriate tests. The focus is on nonparametric methods that make very few assumptions and are appropriate for the kinds of data that many students will collect. Parametric methods, including Student's t-tests, correlation and regression are also covered. Although aimed directly at geography students at senior undergraduate and graduate level, this book provides an accessible introduction to a wide range of statistical methods and will be of value to students and researchers in allied disciplines including Earth and environmental science, and the social sciences. |
| Editorial Review | This is an unusual and exceptional book! It is designed for geography students who want to carry out statistical tests. It is not for teachers or lecturers, and certainly not for practising statisticians. It is for budding geographers who have interesting data, collected as part of, say, an undergraduate (or even postgraduate) project, who need to derive wider meaning from their results and give their study its due significance. In order to achieve this aim it is written in a most engaging fashion, directed at the student colleague, and is designed around the experiments that the students are likely to encounter in their undergraduate course. The book is functional throughout. It starts with the geographical question (i.e. when is the statistical test useful?), and then takes the student through the rationale, and the process of how to carry out the test. Functionality persists, and the student is directed how to carry out the test in a variety of ways: manually, with a range of calculators, or with the appropriate or convenient statistical package such as SPSS. To wrap up each method, the book gives worked examples, of interest to both physical and human Geographers. |
| About the Author | Danny McCarroll completed a Geography degree at the University of Sheffield in 1983 and a PhD, on Little Ice Age fluctuations of Norwegian glaciers, at Swansea University in 1986. He later worked for a few years in the Universities of Cardiff and Southampton before returning to Swansea, where he has since received awards for excellence in both teaching and research as well as a Personal Chair. His research interests include geomorphology, reconstructing Quaternary environments and high resolution climate reconstruction, particularly using tree rings. He coordinated the European Union funded `Millennium' project which brought together an interdisciplinary team of more than 100 scientists from 40 universities to reconstruct the climate of Europe over the last one thousand years. He has more than 100 publications in international journals. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Danny McCarroll |
| Edition Number | 1st edition |
| Publication Date | 21 Nov 2016 |
| Number of Pages | 336 |
Simple Statistical Tests For Geography Paperback English by Danny McCarroll - 21 Nov 2016
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