8920 (v.5) Cartographic Statistics 181
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
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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. |
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