Using Statistics to Understand the Environment

Penny A. Cook, P. Wheater

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2005
• eBook ISBN: 9781134638857
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geography
• Index: Geography

Using Statistics to Understand the Environment covers all the basic tests required for environmental practicals and projects and points the way to the more advanced techniques that may be needed in more complex research designs. Following an introduction to project design, the book covers methods to describe data, to examine differences between samples, and to identify relationships and associations between variables.
Featuring: worked examples covering a wide range of environmental topics, drawings and icons, chapter summaries, a glossary of statistical terms and a further reading section, this book focuses on the needs of the researcher rather than on the mathematics behind the tests.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Series editors’ preface
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of boxes
• List of worked examples
• Acknowledgements
• Using this book
• Chapter 1 Project design
• Chapter 2 Describing data
• Chapter 3 Using statistics to answer questions
• Chapter 4 Differences between two samples
• Chapter 5 Relationships between variables
• Chapter 6 Analysing frequency data
• Chapter 7 Differences between more than two samples
• Glossary
• Appendix A Basic mathematical methods and notation
• Appendix B Using statistical software
• Appendix C Further reading
• Appendix D Statistical tables
• Appendix E Answers to exercises
• References
• Key to commonly used statistical tests
• Index