The paper is prompted by certain apparent deficiences both in the discussion of the
regression model in instructional sources for geographers and in the actual empirical …

THE USE of multivariate statistical techniques is by now well accepted within geography
(King 1969). It is, however, not common to see critical accounts of the limitations of these …

First published in 1978. For the non-mathematician, however, even the simpler introductory
books on statistics often raise considerable problems. In this second edition First, some …

A basic assumption of least squares regression is that the error terms in the regression
model are independent under the null hypothesis. To test whether this assumption has been …

Introduction. TIHE widespread desire to introduce into statistical mietlhods sotnie degree of
critical exactitude lhas led (to the eniployment, now general in careful work, of the two types …

Introduction and Summary The problem discussed in this paper is to determine whether
statistics given for each" county" in a" country" are distributed at random or whether they form …

The appearance of a new edition of this very necessary manual for experimental workers is
a welcome tribute to its usefulness. The author has followed his usual plan of inserting …