Measuring the Real World A Textbook of Applied Statistical Methods [Paperback]

Offers an introduction in Applied Statistics focusing on some of the statistics of today's society--world wide population growth, economic developments, international trade and energy consumption, global maldistribution of income and absorption of resources, depletion of species and resources, environmental changes, and human problems.The Global Situation.

Primary and Secondary Magnitudes.

Ratios.

Percentages.

The Arithmetic Mean.

Time Series.

The Distribution of World Product.

Indices.

The Population Explosion.

Regression and Correlation.

Frequency Distributions.

Bringing It All Together.

Bibliography.

Index.

Stephen Battersby is an Associate of the International Public and Environmental Health Centre at the Robens Institute, University of Surrey and an environmental health consultant. He has worked for a number of local authorities as an environmental health officer and was Assistant Secretary at the Institution of Environmental Health Officers (now the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health) where he was involved in the development of policies which resulted in the legislative changes introduced by the Environmental Protection Act 1990. From 1989 until 1996, he was Editor of Environmental Law Brief and has lectured widely on aspects of environmental law and policy.Suitable for first and second year undergraduates using statistics in area studies and the many related subjects (earth and environmental sciences; geography or European studies; social, historical or development studies). It takes a problem driven approach and goes well beyond the presentation of introductory quantitative methods by focusing on some of the planet?s most crlƒ¯