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Statistical Data Analysis Explained: Applied Environmental Statistics with R

Publication Year:
2008
Edition:
1st
Author:
Reimann, Clemens; Filzmoser, Peter; Garrett, Robert; Dutter, Rudolf
Publisher:
Wiley
ISBN:
978-0-47-098581-6
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Written in colloquial language, avoiding mathematical formulae as much as possible, trying to explain statistical methods using examples and graphics instead.

Few books on statistical data analysis in the natural sciences are written at a level that a non-statistician will easily understand.

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.
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Platform:
OvidSP
Publisher:
Wiley
Product Type:
Book
Author:
Reimann, Clemens; Filzmoser, Peter; Garrett, Robert; Dutter, Rudolf
ISBN:
978-0-47-098581-6
Specialty:
  • Earth & Geological Sciences
  • Ecology
Language:
English
Edition:
1st
Pages:
362
Publication Year:
2008

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