Full Description
From the reviews:
"All in all, Graham Borradaile has written and interesting and idiosyncratic book on statistics for geoscientists that will be welcome among students, researchers, and practitioners dealing with orientation data. That should include engineering geologists who work with things like rock fracture orientation measurements or clast alignment in paleoseismic trenches. It won’t replace the collection of statistics and geostatistics texts in my library, but it will have a place among them and will likely be one of several references to which I turn when working with orientation data.... The text is easy to follow and illustrations are generally clear and easy to read..."(William C. Haneberg, Haneberg Geoscience)
Contents
Introduction.- Sampling Schemes.- Central Tendency and Dispersion.- Theoretical Distributions: Binomial, Poisson and Normal Distributions.- Statistical Interference: Estimation and Hypothesis Tests.- Comparing Frequency.- Distribution Curves.- Regression: Linear, Curvilinear and Multilinear.- Correlation and Comparison of Variables.- Sequences, Cycles and Time-series.- Circular Orientation Data.- Spherical Orientation Data.- Spherical Orientation Data: Tensors.- Errors in Compound Quantities.- Notes on the Manual Use of Stereograms.
