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(6) الطبعة. نعمان شحادة.والتوزيع د0 .الساليب الكمية في الجغرافية باستخدام الحاسوب
دار الصفاء للنشر.1997 .الولي.
Statistical Methods in water and Environmental Science
COURSE.
1. Descriptive Statistics
Examples:
Average rainfall in Gaza last year
Concentration of Nitrate in ground water
Percentage of seniors in this class
2. Inferential Statistics
Population
?????Other examples
Pick out the individuals and variables in these
:examples
1. Discrete (discontinuous(:
a( Indivisible units(
b( Restricted to whole numbers(
c( Can be counted(
e.g. # of children in a family
# of houses in a neighborhood
:Continuous
1. Nominal:
(a) Consists of a set of categories or labels
(b) The ‘score’ does NOT indicate an amount
(c) The ‘score’ is arbitrary
(d) e.g. Sea Level: 1=Low, 2=Medium, 3=High
(c) e.g. land use or soil classifications
(:Ordinal (Rank. 2
a) Score indicates rank order along some continuum(
Example:
Cause Effect
IV DV
Any question
Next Lecture 12/11/2009