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Use and Abuse of Statistical Methods in the Earth Sciences

William B. Size

出版	Oxford University Press, 1987
主題	Science / Life Sciences / BotanyScience / Earth Sciences / GeneralScience / Earth Sciences / Geography
ISBN	01950496329780195049633
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Ge0SAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

A major goal of earth scientists is to make geological interpretations based on statistical inferences, but accomplishing this is difficult due to the "abuse" of statistical methods. This book, the first in the International Association for Mathematical Geology Series, addresses the underlying assumptions of randomness, normality, and variance of sample data used with statistical methods. The authors uncover the reasons for unreliable or invalid statistical results and discuss the use of statistical measures of association, correlation, and regressions with relatively uncontrolled and variable natural data. Their analyses help to bridge the gap between geostatisticians and earth science researchers, and will be valuable to a wide range of earth scientists.