Quantitative Techniques in Geography

By - Hammond, Robert; , McCullagh, Patrick

Floor - Floor 4

Published - Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 1978

ISBN 10 - 0198740670

ISBN 13 - 9780198740674

Book Status - 18 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Geography--Statistical methods , Geography--Methodology

Shelf No - 1

Call Number - 910.0182 HAM 1978

Edition - 2nd ed.

Physical Description - xx, 364 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Notes - Includes Index.

Book Information

This new and enlarged edition contains extra material on a number of topics, including geography and computers, transformation and combination of data, cluster sampling, the use of surrogates and linear programming. As in the first edition the authors attempt to give an insight into some of the techniques and underlying concepts of numerical analysis which form such an integral part of modern geography. Worked examples and exercises for the student are included throughout the text. The examples are taken from both physical and human geography.

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