Statistische Methoden in der Geographie

This standard work provides a comprehensive introduction to univariate and bivariate statistical methods and their application for students of geography and related sciences such as regional research, spatial and land planning, urban planning, and ecology. Text boxes—Formulas/Formal aspects, Opportunities/Limitations, Methods in Geography—offer the reader an even better overview. Numerous illustrations and examples facilitate the reader's understanding of the methods presented.

Content:
• Levels of measurement of variables, population, sample
• Frequency distributions, location and dispersion parameters of univariate distributions, parameters of bivariate distributions
• Measurement of spatial concentration
• Basic concepts of probability theory and combinatorics, theoretical distributions, normal distribution
• Estimation and testing procedures
• Linear simple regression and correlation, non-linear regression, rank correlation, contingency coefficients
• Outliers, causal and statistical relationships, ecological fallacy

In this revised and updated 6th edition, errors from previous editions and various linguistic details have been corrected. In section 6.7.2 (Measures of association for nominally scaled variables), the formal representation has been clarified and the examples updated.