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This sourcebook to the prodigious literature on applications of computers and statistics to geology contains over 2000 references. The glossary provides succinct explanations of most statistical and mathematical terms. Computer topics include hardware, software, programming languages, databases, and communications graphics, CAO/CAM, CAI, GIS and expert systems. Statistical topics range from elementary properties of numbers through univariate, bivariate to multivariate methods. The brief notes on each method provide a general guide to what the technique does, and are illustrated with worked examples from a wide range of geological disciplines. Students and researchers will find the book useful in coping with the explosion of information which has taken place in geology, and to make the best possible use of computers in interpreting acquired data.
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Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences Edited by Somdev Bhattacharji, Gerald M. Friedman, Horst J. Neugebauer and Adolf Seilacher 18 N. M. S. Rock Numerical Geology A Source Guide, Glossary and Selective Bibliography to Geological Uses of Computers and Statistics Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg NewYork London Paris Tokyo Author Dr. Nicholas M.S. Rock Department of Geology, University of Western Austraha Nedlands, 6009, Western Austraha ISBN 3-540-50070-7 Sprmger-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg N e w York ISBN 0-387-50070-7 Sprmger-Verlag N e w York Berlin Heidelberg This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of ~}lustratlons, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in other ways, and storage in data banks Duplication of this publication or parts thereof ~sonly permitted under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September