8920 (v.5) Cartographic Statistics 181

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Area:	Department of Spatial Sciences
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	12166 (v.2) Mathematics 134 OR 4579 (v.2) Mathematics 181
Nature of data in the spatial sciences. Descriptive statistics: measures of central tendency and dispersion - correlation and co-variance. Linear and multiple regression. Error analysis - types of errors and their propagation. Probability distributions.The Normal distribution. Hypothesis formulation and testing - Student, Chi-squared and Fischer distributions, two-way analysis of variance. Introduction to spatial statistics.