Geostatistics Explained: An Introductory Guide for Earth Scientists

McKillup, Steve; Dyar, Melinda Darby

ISBN 10: 0521746566 / ISBN 13: 9780521746564

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Beschreibung

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers BSM.MBRJ

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Geostatistics Explained: An Introductory Guide for Earth Scientists
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521746566
• ISBN-13: 9780521746564
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: good

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Inhaltsangabe

This reader-friendly introduction to geostatistics demystifies complex concepts and makes formulas and statistical tests easy to apply. With wide-ranging examples from topics across the Earth and environmental sciences, and worked examples at the end of each chapter, this book can be used for undergraduate courses or for self-study and reference.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Steve McKillup is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biosystems and Resources at Central Queensland University. He has received several tertiary teaching awards, including the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Quality Teaching and a 2008 Australian Teaching and Learning Council citation 'For developing a highly successful method of teaching complex physiological and statistical concepts, and embodying that method in an innovative international textbook'. He is the author of Statistics Explained: An Introductory Guide for Life Scientists (Cambridge, 2006). His research interests include biological control of introduced species, the ecology of soft-sediment shores and mangrove swamps.

Melinda Darby Dyar is an Associate Professor of Geology and Astronomy at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts. Her research interests range from innovative pedagogies and curricular materials to the characterization of planetary materials. She has studied samples from mid-ocean ridges and every continent on Earth, as well as from the lunar highlands and Mars. She is a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America, and the author or coauthor of more than 130 refereed journal articles. She is the author of two mineralogy DVDs used in college-level teaching, and a textbook, Mineralogy and Optical Mineralogy (2008).