Categorical Data Analysis for Geographers and Environmental
Scientists, originally published in 1985, provided the first
account of the new integrated approaches to the analysis of
categorical data designed specifically to meet the needs of the
geographer and the environmental scientist. It is intended to be
the logical sequel to the type of multivariate statistics course
that most researchers in those fields will have encountered. As
such, it is much more comprehensive in scope than other texts in
the field. The book contains more than 40 empiric illustrations
(from oil exploration to transport planning in cities), which are
designed to form an integrated part of the text. These serve to
link the theory to the practice of geographical and environmental
science research. Dr. Wrigley's book was a milestone in data
analysis in the spatial sciences. It provided an account of a
revolution that has swept through an area of statistical
methodology and that has transformed the practice of data analysis
for social and environmental scientists. The book is sensitive to
the likely statistic/mathematic backgrounds of geographers and
environmental scientists and is written in a fashion that should be
accessible to all higher level undergraduate and postgraduate
students, faculty and researchers in those areas. "One of the
liveliest areas of statistics during the past 15 years has been the
analysis of categorical data, counts or frequencies of different
classes. Historically a poor relation of the analysis of continuous
data, the field has been unified by the development of related
families of models (logit, logistic, log-linear, and so on), which
supersede or subsume earlier approaches based on measures of
association or chi-square testing, many of them rather isolated or
ad hoc. As, among geographers, Neil Wrigley has been the leading
advocate and exponent of these new methods, it is especially
appropriate that he should produce a guidebook for his colleagues.
Thorough, professional and beautifully laid out, his text leads the
reader steadily through the new terrain, with many helpful remarks
on confusing points like notation . . . . He can be congratulated
on a major contribution to the geographical literature." The Times
Higher Education Supplement "The book must certainly be regarded as
a major contribution to quantitative analysis in geography and
environmental science. It will undoubtedly appear daunting to many
readers at first, but is worth persevering with and has the merit
that it will bear repeated reading as the expertise of the analyst
develops." Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
"Wrigley has succeeded in producing a first-rate book which covers
many of the major geographically relevant developments of
categorical data analysis and presents them in an integrative,
stimulating, and comprehensible way. The book should become both a
standard text for courses on statistical methodology at the
higher-level undergraduate and postgraduate level and a must for
the researcher involved in the modelling of spatial choice
behaviour and in analyzing categorical data." Geographical Analysis
Neil Wrigley Ph.D. (Cambridge), D.Sc. (Bristol) is Professor of
Geography at the University of Southampton, UK (where he has been
Head of Department 1992-95, 1999-2001). Previously, he was
Professor and Head of the Department of City & Regional
Planning, University of Wales, Cardiff, and before that Reader in
Geography at the University of Bristol. He has held visiting
appointments at several universities in the USA, Canada and
Australia, an Erskine Fellowship in New Zealand, and was Senior
Research Fellow at St Peter's College, Oxford (1996-97). He is
currently founding editor of the Journal of Economic Geography
(Oxford University Press) and was previously (1988-93) editor of
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
