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Preface
This book evolved from lecture notes and laboratory manuals that I have written over many years to
teach data analysis and statistics to rst-year graduate and fourth-year undergraduate students. I have
developed this material during 15 years while teaching a rst-year graduate course in quantitative
techniques for the Applied Geography and the Environmental Sciences program at the University
of North Texas (UNT). In that course, we focus on data analysis methods for problem solving in
geographical and environmental sciences, emphasizing hands-on experience. Quantitative methods
applied in these sciences share many attributes; of t ...