Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology

thoroughly Revised And Updated, This New Edition Of The Text That Helped Define The Field Continues To Present Important Methods In The Quantitative Analysis Of Geologic Data, While Showing Students How Statistics And Computing Can Be Applied To Commonly Encountered Problems In The Earth Sciences. in Addition To New And Expanded Coverage Of Key Topics, The Third Edition Features New Pedagogy, End-of-chapter Review Exercises, And An Accompanying Website That Contains All Of The Data For Every Example And Exercise Found In The Book. This thoroughly revised edition presents important methods in the quantitative analysis of geologic data. Retains the basic arrangement of the previous edition but expands sections on probability, nonparametric statistics, and Fourier analysis. Contains revised coverage of eigenvalues and eigenvectors, and new coverage of data analysis methods, such as the semivariogram and the process of kriging.