Statistical Data Analysis Explained: Applied Environmental Statistics with RISBN: 978-0-470-98581-6
Hardcover
384 pages
June 2008
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Few books on statistical data analysis in the natural sciences are
written at a level that a non-statistician will easily understand.
This is a book written in colloquial language, avoiding
mathematical formulae as much as possible, trying to explain
statistical methods using examples and graphics instead. To
use the book efficiently, readers should have some computer
experience. The book starts with the simplest of statistical
concepts and carries readers forward to a deeper and more extensive
understanding of the use of statistics in environmental sciences.
The book concerns the application of statistical and other computer
methods to the management, analysis and display of spatial data.
These data are characterised by including locations (geographic
coordinates), which leads to the necessity of using maps to display
the data and the results of the statistical methods. Although the
book uses examples from applied geochemistry, and a large
geochemical survey in particular, the principles and ideas equally
well apply to other natural sciences, e.g., environmental sciences,
pedology, hydrology, geography, forestry, ecology, and health
sciences/epidemiology.
The book is unique because it supplies direct access to software solutions (based on R, the Open Source version of the S-language for statistics) for applied environmental statistics. For all graphics and tables presented in the book, the R-scripts are provided in the form of executable R-scripts. In addition, a graphical user interface for R, called DAS+R, was developed for convenient, fast and interactive data analysis.
Statistical Data Analysis Explained: Applied Environmental Statistics with R provides, on an accompanying website, the software to undertake all the procedures discussed, and the data employed for their description in the book.