Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology

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.

Preface v

1 Introduction 1

2 Elementary Statistics 11

3 Matrix Algebra 123

4 Analysis of Sequences of Data 159

5 Spatial Analysis 293

6 Analysis of Multivariate Data 461

Appendix 601

Index 621

John C. Davis is the author of Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology, 3rd Edition, published by Wiley.