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Geography 390: Applied Statistics in Geography

COURSE CALENDAR 2007

(tentative)

Date
Topic
Reading
Assignment
Week 1      
Jan 22 Introduction to Statistics in Geography

 

Jan 24

 Geographic Data
  • Textbook Chapter 2 pp. 16-20
  • Workbook pp. 3-4

 
Jan 26

Geographic Data

  • Exercise 1: Geographic Data; due 1/29
Week 2      
Jan 29 Measurement Quality
  • Textbook Chapter 2 pp. 20-21
  • Workbook pp. 13-16
  • Exercise 2: Random & Systematic Errors; due 1/31
Jan 31 Classification, Histograms & Choropleth Maps
  • Textbook Chapter 2 pp. 22-33
  • Workbook pp. 21-22
  • Quiz 1
  • Exercise 3: Precision; due 2/2
Feb 2 Classification, Histograms & Choropleth Maps
  • Exercise 4: Classification Methods; due 2/5
Week 3      
Feb 5 Meet in SIAL  
  • Exercise 5: Wisconsin Milk Cows; due 2/7 2/9
Feb 7 Descriptive Statistics for Nonspatial Data
  • Chapter 3 pp. 37-46 & pp. 50-51 (skip section 3.4)
  • Quiz 2
  • Exercise 6: Earthquake Magnitude; due 2/9
Feb 9 Meet in SIAL
  • Exercise 8: Choropleth Mapping With ArcView; due; due 2/14
Week 4      
Feb 12 Descriptive Statistics for Nonspatial Data
  • Workbook pp. 39-40
  
Feb 14 Descriptive Statistics for Nonspatial Data
  • Workbook pp. 39-40
  • Chapter 3 pp. 37-46 & pp. 50-51 (skip section 3.4)

 
Feb 16 Descriptive Statistics for Nonspatial Data
  • Workbook pp. 39-40
  • Chapter 3 pp. 37-46 & pp. 50-51 (skip section 3.4)
  • Quiz 3
Week 5      
Feb 19 Meet in SIAL  
  • Exercise 9: Glaciers of North America and China; due 2/21
Feb 21  

 
  • Exercise 10: Descriptive Statistics for Nonspatial Data; due 2/23
Feb 23 Exam Review

 

  
Week 6      
Feb 26 Exam 1 - Covers all material through Feb 23 
Feb 28 Descriptive Statistics for Spatial Data
  • Chapter 4 pp. 52-61
  • Exercise 11: Spatial Center and Dispersion; due 3/2
Mar 2 Descriptive Statistics for Spatial Data
  • Workbook pp. 63-64

 
Week 7      
Mar 5 Meet in SIAL

 
  • Exercise 12: Locating a New School; due 3/9
Mar 7  Three Geographic Problems
  • Chapter 3 pp. 46-50
  • Workbook pp. 85-86
  • Quiz 4
Mar 9 Meet in SIAL

 
  • Exercise 13: Central Tendency in ArcView; due 3/14
Week 8      
Mar 12

Meet in SIAL

 
  • Exercise 14: The Geography of Murder; due 3/16
Mar 14 Meet in SIAL

 

 
Mar 16 Meet in SIAL

 

 
Spring Break Spring Break Spring Break Spring Break Spring Break Spring Break
Week 9      
Mar 26 Meet in SIAL

 
  • Exercise 16: Low Income Housing; due 3/30
Mar 28 Introduction to Sampling
  • Chapter 6 pp. 82-89
  • Quiz 5
  • Exercise 16: Target Populations & Sampling Frames; due 3/30
Mar 30 Nonspatial Probability Sampling
  • Chapter 6 pp. 89-92
  • Workbook pp. 101-103
  • Exercise 17: Sampling Designs; due 4/2
Week 10      
Apr 2 Spatial Probability Sampling
  • Chapter 6 pp. 92-96
  • Workbook pp. 103-105
  • Exercise 18: Nonspatial Sampling; due 4/4
Apr 4    
  • Exercise 19: Spatial Sampling; due 4/7
Apr 7 Exam Review    
Week 11      
Apr 9 Exam 2 - Covers all material through April 7 
Apr 11 Spatial Probability Sampling
  • Chapter 6 pp. 92-96
  • Workbook pp. 103-105
  • Exercise 16: Target Populations & Sampling Frames; due 4/13
  • Exercise 17: Sampling Designs; due 4/13
Apr 13 Meet in SIAL

 
  • Exercise 18: Nonspatial Sampling; due 4/16

Week 12

      
Apr 16 The Standard Normal Distribution
  • Chapter 5 pp. 65-69 and pp. 75-81
  • Exercise 19: Spatial Sampling; due 4/18
Apr 18 The Standard Normal Distribution

 
  • Exercise 20: Standard Normal Distribution; due 4/20
Apr 20 Hypothesis Testing
  • Chapter 8 pp. 115-129
  • Chapter 9 pp. 130-137, 140-145

 
Week 13      
Apr 23 Comparing Centers
  • Chapter 8 pp. 118-129
  • Chapter 9 pp. 130-137, 140-145
  • Quiz 6
  • Exercise 21: Comparing Centers
Apr 25 Comparing Centers  
  • Exercise 21: Comparing Centers
Apr 27 Comparing Centers  
  • Exercise 21: Comparing Centers
Week 14      
Apr 30 Comparing Centers    
May 2 Comparing Frequencies
  • Chapter 11 pp. 154-166
  • Exercise 22: Comparing Centers II; due 5/4
May 4 Comparing Frequencies
  • Chapter 11 pp. 166-170
  • Exercise 24: Chi-Square; due 5/7
Week 15      
May 7 Point Pattern Analysis
  • Chapter 12 pp. 171-181
  • Quiz 7
  • Exercise 25: Nearest Neighbor Analysis; due 5/9
May 9 Point Pattern Analysis  
  • All assignments must be handed in by today. No assignments will be accepted after today.
May 11 Course Summary    
Finals      
May 17 Exam 3 - Covers all material through May 11  

8:00-10:00 AM

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Last updated May 3, 2007