Statistical Methods for Geography: A Student's Guide

By Peter A. Rogerson and Peter A Rogerson

Book Overview

"This book provides students with everything they need to know in both a basic statistics course and also in introductory courses focused on spatial data analysis. It is extremely well-written, well-organized and has plenty of easily understood examples - really the ideal textbook. I recommend it extremely highly."
-- Stewart Fotheringham, Director, National Centre for Geocomputation National University of Ireland Maynooth

The Third Edition of this bestselling text has been fully revised and updated. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the principal methods and techniques that students need to understand in order to successfully complete a statistics module. It remains unique in the teaching literature by being a primer on statistical methods written especially for students of geography, using spatial and geographical examples.

Features new to this edition include:

Further introductory materialUpdated exercises and illustrative examples are provided at the end of each chapter Downloadable datasetsA fully functioning web page with Excel workbook excercises and PowerPoint illustrationsA companion website with resources for instructors and students is available at www.sagepub.co.uk/rogerson.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848600038
• ISBN13: 9781848600034
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Statistical mehods for geography without geostatistics

As its name say, the book covers aspects about statistic in geography, but not about geostatistics. In other hand, is like a basic statistic book with examples gotten from geography. The basic concepts are there: variables, correlation, regression, variance, hypothesys proofs. All of them explained with spatial cases. The explanation along the book are clear for a person with college statistical knowledge. The problem that I can see with this text is that book not talk about the importance of geoestatistical methods. There is not in any Rogerson book line nothing about autocorrelation, variogram, kriging interpolation and the like. Some of that could improve the book because is important to know that statistical methods some times are out of order, in spetcial when variables are regionalized variables and keep betwen themself some grade of autocorrelation. This phenomena is not studied and is very important in the quantitative geography. The book is good for the items wich contains. I use it for my class.

A very good book

This is a very good statistic book. The book provides detailed information about applying statistics in geographical context. The book is easy to read, informative but not too extensive. Enough details are given for each concepts. The examples are extremely helpful in understand the principles of spatial issues. Some ideas in this book are creative and easy to use. It has it value in practise too. If you are interested in doing spatial statistics. This book will be a wonderful start point.