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Geographic Information Analysis
David O'Sullivan , and David J. Unwin Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471211761 |
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Clear, up-to-date coverage of methods for analyzing geographical information in a GIS contextGeographic Information Analysis presents clear and up-to-date coverage of the foundations of spatial analysis in a geographic information systems environment. Focusing on the universal aspects of spatial data and their analysis, this book covers the scientific assumptions and limitations of methods available in many geographic information systems.
Throughout, the fundamental idea of a map as a realization of a spatial stochastic process is central to the discussion. Key spatial concepts are covered, including point pattern, line objects and networks, area objects, and continuous fields. Analytical techniques for each of these are addressed, as are methods for combining maps, exploring multivariate data, and performing computationally intensive analysis. Appendixes provide primers on basic statistics and linear algebra using matrices.
Complete with chapter objectives, summaries, "thought exercises," a wealth of explanatory diagrams, and an annotated bibliography, Geographic Information Analysis is a practical book for students, as well as a valuable resource for researchers and professionals in the industry.
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Statistics for Biologists
Richard Colin Campbell Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 0521369320 |
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The third edition of this successful textbook is a lucid introduction to the principles and elementary techniques of statistical reasoning. New materials are included that show the usefulness of computers to biologists; computer analyses of a selection of the examples are presented, using SPSS-X, Minitab and Genstat. The book assumes no mathematical training and uses a minimum of jargon and symbolism. Particular attention is paid to the validity and use of statistical procedures, the interpretation of results, and the meanings of conclusions. Full explanations of statistical methods are given.Customer Reviews:
Outdated, unhelpful.......2007-08-02
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Choosing and Using Statistics: A Biologist's Guide
Calvin Dytham Manufacturer: Blackwell Publishing Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1405102438 |
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The first edition of excellent handbook was extremely well received by both students and lecturers alike. It has helped to simplify the often complex and difficult task of choosing and using the right statistics package.This is a book for any student or professional biologist who wants to process data using a statistical package on the computer, to select appropriate methods, and extract the important information from the often confusing output that is produced. It is aimed primarily at undergraduates and masters students in the biological sciences who have to apply statistics in practical classes and projects. Such users of statistics do not have to understand either how tests work or how to do the calculations, and these aspects are not covered in the book.The new edition has been updated to cover the very latest versions of the computer packages described, expanded to include coverage for logistic regression, a more detailed consideration of multivariate analysis, data exploration and further examples of Principle Component Analysis and Discriminate Function Analysis are given.Customer Reviews:
nice attempt but should take statistics 101 first.......2006-12-14
A p-value is NOT the probability that the null hypothesis is true!.......2006-12-03
Relief for those who don't speak in equations.......2002-10-18
How to make statistics clear: a book to be ready-to-go.......2000-02-21
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Sampling Design and Statistical Methods for Environmental Biologists
Roger H. Green Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0471039012 |
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Provides—in an organized and compact source—a comprehensive guide to the principles of sampling design and statistical analysis methods. Reviews the principles of inference, sampling and statistical design, and hypothesis formulation, all with special reference to ecological data. Includes an impact study illustrating the principles presented. Contains a key to five broad categories of environmental studies—as well as examples and examines specific topics that apply to any environmental study. Provides a comprehensive bibliography which is cross-referenced to the text and keyed to a specific topic code (types of methods and environments studied).Customer Reviews:
All GOOD science should follow these guidelines.......2002-02-27
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Statistics and Experimental Design: An Introduction for Biologists and Biochemists
Geoffrey M. Clarke Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0470234091 |
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Practical Statistics for Experimental Biologists, 2nd Edition
Alastair C. Wardlaw Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0471988227 |
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A good working knowledge of statistical principles is needed for both the design and analysis of biological experiments and the subsequent handling of the large amounts of data generated if worthwhile, reliable conclusions are to be reached.
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Basic statistics: A primer for the biomedical sciences (Series on quantitative methods for biologists and medical scientists)
Olive Jean Dunn Manufacturer: J. Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding Similar Items: ASIN: B0006BM2JK |
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An introduction to the use of statistics in biomedical research-now fully updated for the information age
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Biostatistics: Concepts and Applications for Biologists
Brian Williams Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall/CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0412462206 |
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Principles of Biometry. Statistics for Biologists
Charles M. Woolf Manufacturer: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0442095252 |
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Statistics and numerical methods in BASIC for biologists
J. D Lee Manufacturer: Van Nostrand Reinhold ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0442304765 |
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Enciclopedia Didactica De Fisica Y Quimica / Encyclopedia of Physics and Chemistry
Oceano Manufacturer: Grupo Oceano ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 8449406986 |
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Wavelets and Other Orthogonal Systems with Applications
Gilbert G. Walter Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0849378788 |
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Well motivated!.......2003-03-02
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Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (Twentieth Century Classics)
Edmund Gosse Manufacturer: Penguin Classics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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The era in which faith and reason conflicted in a profound manner seems far away, and perhaps even a bit incomprehensible, to citizens of the modern world. Most of us take for granted our right to choose the life of the mind over that of the spirit without feeling remorse. At the very least, we've learned that the two need not be mutually exclusive. But this is hard-won ease, born of a conflict that began with the Victorians. Edmund Gosse's Father and Son (1907) traces his own reckoning--as well as that of his father, the eminent British zoologist Philip Gosse--with the clash. His story is, as he declares, "The diagnosis of a dying Puritanism."The only Puritanism that dies here, however, is the author's. His parents were Christian fundamentalists and as a result, young Edmund was denied interaction with other children as well as all variety of fictional tales. "Here was perfect purity," Gosse writes, "perfect intrepidity, perfect abnegation; yet there was also narrowness, isolation, and absence of perspective, let it boldly be admitted, an absence of humanity." Despite all of this, the child maintained his sense of humor, which adds much levity to a tale of such potentially grim proportions.
When Edmund was 8, his mother died of cancer, leaving him the care of a man in whom "sympathetic imagination ... was singularly absent." Philip Gosse held on to his faith in God above all else--so much so, in fact, that when evolutionary theory was announced to the world, he dismissed it entirely because it discounted the book of Genesis. Little by little, Edmund began to chafe against the traditions he had inherited. By the age of 11, he already saw himself "imprisoned for ever in the religious system which had caught me and would whurl my helpless spirit." At this point he believed his fate was sealed and went through the motions of piety. It is not until he goes off to boarding school, and discovers the Greeks and Romantic poetry, that he slowly chooses his own path. Eventually he comes to realize that he and his father "walked in opposite hemispheres of the soul." Their split encapsulates a particular moment in history but also embodies their destiny: "one was born to fly backward, the other could not help being carried forward." --Melanie Rehak
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A justly celebrated memoir of the Victorian age.......2001-12-15
A number of powerful impressions evolve over the course of the telling. First and foremost, one is left with an impression of how overwhelmingly Gosse's childhood was stripped of nearly all fun by his parents' puritanical and stern religion. Gosse's father is presented not as a cruel, vicious, and hypocritical. Instead, he is shown as a caring parent, a completely earnest practitioner of his religion, but fanatically concerned to eliminate all activities that do not lead to increased religious devotion and moral seriousness. Unfortunately, this resulted for Gosse in a childhood from which all possibility of play and fun and delight had been eliminated. Near the end of the book, I was left wondering if Gosse would have been inclined to leave Christianity if he had just had more fun as a kid.
The section of the book dealing with his father's reaction to Darwin's ORIGIN OF SPECIES was for me the most interesting part of the book. His father's scientific standing was such that Darwin actually contacted him before the publication of his theories, and asked his response. Gosse notes that his father instantly understood that the scientific evidence clearly supported Darwin's theory. His reading of Genesis, however, indicated to him that the world was created in six days, which precluded the scenario articulated by Darwin. He therefore concluded that god created the earth in six days, but in so doing implanted fossils and geologic strata into the earth. In this way, his father was able to explain both the apparent evidence for eons long development of the earth and homo sapiens and yet retain his belief in the belief that Genesis taught a six day literal creation.
There are any of a number of reasons to read this work. It is a classic autobiography, an important source for one response to the reception of Darwin, and a magnificent evocation of puritanical religious life during the Victorian age. Most of all, it is a disturbing account of the distortive effect that intolerant and narrow-minded religious upbringing can have on an individual.
An endearingly human work.......2001-08-21
A Natural Conflict.......2000-09-22
Gosse lived in an age when people held very high standard of propriety; any departure from rules of behaviour would be seen as an offence. But conflicts between fathers and sons, or between their respective thoughts, are as common nowadays as they were in ancient times. Gosse revealed in his book the differences between his father and himself mainly in their beliefs as to how life should be lived. The book caused a sensation upon release not because of the revelation but because of the daring publication of the differences - Gosse did as people at that time were not bold enough to do. As such differences were common, though they might not be voiced, many people shared the writer's experience and the book became instantly popular.
Nevertheless, to explain the success of the book in so few words as those said above will not do justice to Gosse. It is, in Bernard Shaw's words, one of those immortal pages in English literature. These might be extravagant words. Even so, Gosse, indeed, earned himself a place in English literature by such a bold attempt as mentioned earlier. But the attempt need not have been made - two men of widely different ages look at each other from different angles; the gap between them is only natural; it need not be alluded to nor elucidated. Any attempt which need not have been made cannot succeed.
An ex-exclusive brethren perspective.......2000-03-13
Speaking of his parents' faith, he writes ...
They called themselves 'the Brethren', simply; a title enlarged by the world outside into 'Plymouth Brethren'.
Given that there is no mention of John Darby in the book, and that the book follows the 1848-49 schism that resulted in open and exclusive brethren, and that the assemblies described in the book seem essentially autonomous, I assume Gosse is referring to the 'open brethren' when he speaks of Plymouth Brethren.
Readers raised among any of the groups that have evolved from the Brethren groups that began in Dublin in the 1820's will find much familiar material.
The book is worth reading at least twice. I've just read it again after owning it for a year and am struck again at how well he describes life among the brethren and the incredible stress parents can put upon their children in the name of faith.
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Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (Nonsuch Classics Series)
Edmund Gosse Manufacturer: Nonsuch Publishing, Limited ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 1845880188 |
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Father and Son is the memoir of the childhood and young adulthood of the author Edmund Gosse, the "Son" of the title. Both his parents were members of the religious sect the "Plymouth Brethren" and it was in an atmosphere of strict adherence to the teaching of this religion that Edmund grew up. From an early age he was taught that imagination was a sin, was told stories of missionaries rather than fairytales and had no childhood companions. Yet this was not an unhappy childhood and his affection for his parents is clear, but they were unable to suppress the imagination and curiosity that is natural to every child. Over time, as the child suffers the death of his mother and grows into a young man, he starts to question the faith of his father so rigidly enforced upon him and to develop his own interests in the outside world which leads to him pursuing his own path in life. This is an affecting and often emotional portrayal of the everyday life and crises of a remarkable Victorian family.
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Father and Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (Modern Classics Series)
Edmund Gosse Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0140007008 |
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Science and Religion.......2004-06-12
Philip Gosse, son of a painter of miniatures, was a miniaturist. As a young man he went from Poole, England to New Foundland for six years and to Alabama for three. In Alabama he taught school. In 1832 he began his entomologic collection.
Philip left his Methodist chapel and joined a small group of Plymouth Brethren. In 1844 Philip was sent to Jamaica. He became a successful writer of scientific books. In 1848 he married Emily Bowes. She fell to writing religious tracts. The son, Edmund, born in 1849, suffered deprivations. He had few toys, no playmates and no reading except for religious tracts and the Bible.
In 1849 Philip purchased a microscope. He grew in knowledge and number of publications and received honors. In 1852 he invented the marine aquarium. In 1857 Philip Gosse sought to present a unified scientific and biblical version of geologic time to refute Darwinism. Before the book's publication his career had met with resounding success. After OMPHALOS he faced failure and ridicule.
The secular education of the son was neglected. Eventually Edmund reacted against the loneliness and religion of his childhood. Edmund became a Bohemian prophet without the taint of Bohemianism it is asserted in the introduction to the book. An American tour made him a public figure. Edmund Gosse's reputation plunged when he was found to have written an error-filled account of Swinburne. He became famous for having Sunday afternoon parties for all of the important people of his day. The introduction to the book by William Irvine claims that Edmund Gosse was inspired to write FATHER AND SON after he wrote a biography of another literary figure, Coventry Patmore.
The book claims to be a record of the struggle of two temperaments. Certainly temperament and spirit are featured notably in the work. Edmund's mother had rigor of spirit. She practiced constant self-denial. She was stronger than her husband.
The parents visited no one. Edmund's mother's brothers visited them. The brothers had been helped through Cambridge by her employment as a teacher at a mouldering Irish estate. The author has the idea that his mother was suited by nature to be a novelist. His mother's death when he was seven left a gap that his father sought to fill.
In his eighth year his father instructed him in the Epistles of the New Testament. The emphasis was doctrinal. The attitude of the father toward natural selection was critical to his career as noted above. After the failure to refute Darwin's theory the family moved to the sea shore. In Devonshire marine creatures were collected and documented by the father. The village in Devon is described as open and squalid. The father's life work was really the practical study of animal forms in detail. The study of British sea anemones was ready for the press in 1859.
Edmund was taught Latin by his father. When Edmund was eleven his father remarried. His father permitted him to read the poems but not the novels of Scott. Then he was allowed to read Dickens. He read PICKWICK with rapture. He was sent to a boarding school run by some Plymouth Brethren. At age fifteen he fell under the spell of Shakespeare. Later the poetry of the Romatic era interested him greatly.
The book is of great interest to us in its sensitive descriptions presented from a child's perspective of a household bereft and subject to religious mania. Since great literature was not presented to Edmund in childhood, evidently his response to it in later life was more acute. Notwithstanding the narrow channels in which his parents exercised their gifts as writers, they transmitted to him through genetic endowment or by example the vocation he was to follow as an adult.
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Father and Son (A Study of Two Temperaments)
Edmund Gosse Manufacturer: William Heinemann Ltd, London ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000M5XEZG |
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Father and Son : A Study of Two Temperaments
Manufacturer: Penguin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Mass Market Paperback ASIN: B000CSZO38 |
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Father and Son a Study of Two Temperaments
Manufacturer: RYBURN ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000EY17ZY |
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Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
Edmund Gosse Manufacturer: Hard Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1406921610 Release Date: 2006-11-03 |
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Father and son: A study of two temperaments
Edmund Gosse Manufacturer: C. Scribner ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00087H82I |
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Father and son;: A study of two temperaments (Norton library. N195)
Edmund Gosse Manufacturer: Norton ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007E8NBW |
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Father and son;: A study of two temperaments (Penguin modern classics)
Edmund Gosse Manufacturer: Penguin Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007JGCUQ |
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