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Statistics for Geoscientists

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 1987
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: D. Marsal, D. F. Merriam
  • Language: English

Presents nearly all the important elementary and analytical methods of statistics, designed for the needs of the geoscientist and completely free from higher mathematics.… Read more

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Description

Presents nearly all the important elementary and analytical methods of statistics, designed for the needs of the geoscientist and completely free from higher mathematics. Translated from the second German edition.

Readership

For geoscientists in university and industry with no mathematical background wishing to use statistical methods, particularly geologists, palaeontologists and mineralogists, as well as soil scientists and morphologists.

Table of contents

(partial) Introduction, scope and purpose of applied statistics. Classification and tabulation of frequency distributions. Distribution curves, cumulative frequency curves, special representations, and logarithmic class intervals. Averaging. Variance, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis. Moments. The characterization of grain-size distributions. Elementary introduction to the statistical analysis of stratified rock sequences and time series. Some important distribution functions. Ranking methods. Correlation and regression. Simplified linear and nonlinear regression analysis. Introduction to the analysis of variance (ANOVA). Latin squares. Factor analysis.

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 1, 1987
  • Language: English

About the authors

DM

D. Marsal

Affiliations and expertise
University of Stuttgart, FRG

DM

D. F. Merriam

Affiliations and expertise
Wichita State University, USA

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