Statistical Methods for Geography
A Student’s Guide
- Peter A Rogerson - University of Buffalo, USA
Quantitative Methods for Geography
Now fully integrated with online self-assessment exercises and video navigation, it explains everything required to get full credits for any undergraduate statistics module:
- Descriptive statistics, probability, inferential statistics, hypothesis testing and sampling, variance, correlation, regression analysis, spatial patterns, spatial data reduction using factor analysis and cluster analysis.
- Exercises in the text are complemented with online exercise and prompts that test the understanding of concepts and techniques, additional online exercises review understanding of the entire chapter, relating concepts and techniques.
- Completely revised and updated for accessibility, including new material (on measures of distance, statistical power, sample size selection, and basic probability) with related exercises and downloadable datasets.
Supplements
The website offers a range of interactive teaching and learning materials for both lecturers and students, including:
- Audio slidecasts explaining the key concepts
- Excercises with solutions for both students and instructors
- Datasets: Each dataset utilised in the text is included with a description of its format and fields
This course book provides basic knowledge about empirical methods and statistical approaches for geography students. This book has a geographical and spatial point of view for general statistical methods. Therefore, this book goes a little bit further than generic statistical books. This textbook starts with generic statistical methods. Subsequently, the main point for geography students is the spatial approach of the book. Therefore, my opinion is that this book is applicable reading for geography students to get familiar with quantitative methods in their own field - in spatial context.
It is a very "student friendly" guide of the basic statistical methods. I really appreciate that the book is also using Excel in few chapters because it is, unfortunately, the most available "statistical" software for students (our university has not got a multi license for SPSS). It is also very valuable that Rogerson's textbook is truly for geographers, dealing with very useful tool of geographically weighted regression.
Level is too advanced for the year one course that I teach.
I am sure that this book provides students with every thing they nee to know in both statics course.
Very nice book but not exactly what I was looking for - still researching
A very useful textbook, well-organized, well-written and well-illustrated , includes plenty of helpful examples and exercises to practice and improve skills in statistical methods.
This book is ideal for undergraduates who study geography. I will adopt it as an essential textbook for the course I am teaching.
Key concepts and principles are explained in a quite stimulating way, and I believe that this book will therefore be a valuable source for students. The idea of related datasets and exercises is nicely done.
I think this is an excellent book. As an introduction to spatial statistics I will certainly be recommending it to my students. Perhaps the only criticism I have is that the examples are in SPSS - this is fine and I can see why this is, but there is a general shift towards R these days for statistical (and spatial) analysis, so subsequent editions might like to reflect this.
For those doing geographical related topics then this book provides good coverage of many useful statistical methods for research.
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