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Author Acevedo, Miguel F., author.

Title Data analysis and statistics for geography, environmental science, and engineering / Miguel F. Acevedo
Published Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 523 pages) : illustrations
Contents Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Author; Chapter 1 -- Introduction; Chapter 2 -- Probability Theory; Chapter 3 -- Random Variables, Distributions, Moments, and Statistics; Chapter 4 -- Exploratory Analysis and Introduction to Inferential Statistics; Chapter 5 -- More on Inferential Statistics: Goodness of Fit, Contingency Analysis, and Analysis of Variance; Chapter 6 -- Regression; Chapter 7 -- Stochastic or Random Processes and Time Series; Chapter 8 -- Spatial Point Patterns; Chapter 9 -- Matrices and Linear Algebra; Chapter 10 -- Multivariate Models
Chapter 11 -- Dependent Stochastic Processes and Time SeriesChapter 12 -- Geostatistics: Kriging; Chapter 13 -- Spatial Auto-Correlation and Auto-Regression; Chapter 14 -- Multivariate Analysis I: Reducing Dimensionality; Chapter 15 -- Multivariate Analysis II: Identifying and Developing Relationships among Observations and Variables; Bibliography; Back Cover
Summary PART I Introduction to Probability, Statistics, Time Series, and Spatial AnalysisIntroductionBrief History of Statistical and Probabilistic AnalysisComputersApplicationsTypes of VariablesProbability Theory and Random VariablesMethodologyDescriptive StatisticsInferential StatisticsPredictors, Models, and RegressionTime SeriesSpatial Data AnalysisMatrices and Multiple DimensionsOther Approaches: Process-Based ModelsBaby Steps: Calculations and GraphsExercisesComputer Session: Introduction to RSupplementary ReadingProbability TheoryEvents and ProbabilitiesAlgebra of EventsCombinationsProbability
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-523)
Notes Online resource; title from title page (Safari, viewed January 8, 2015)
Subject Geography -- Data processing
Geography -- Statistical methods.
Environmental sciences -- Data processing
Environmental sciences -- Statistical methods
Engineering -- Data processing.
Engineering -- Statistical methods.
MATHEMATICS -- Applied.
MATHEMATICS -- Probability & Statistics -- General.
Engineering -- Data processing
Engineering -- Statistical methods
Environmental sciences -- Data processing
Environmental sciences -- Statistical methods
Geography -- Data processing
Geography -- Statistical methods
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012032357
ISBN 9781466592216
1466592214