STATISTICAL & NUMERICAL SKILLS MODULE – SAMPLE PAGES
TYPES OF DATA
RATIOS/FRACTIONS
ESTIMATING AREA
DENSITIES
PERCENTAGES
PROPORTION, MAGNITUDE & FREQUENCY
MEAN, MEDIAN, MODE
FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION
CUMULATIVE FREQUENCY
RANGE/INTER-QUARTILE RANGE
STANDARD DEVIATION
NEAREST NEIGHBOUR INDEX
LOCATION QUOTIENT
NULL v ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS
SPEARMAN’S RANK CORRELATION COEFFICIENT
PEARSON’S TEST
STUDENT’S T-TEST
MANN-WHITNEY U-TEST
CHI-SQUARED TEST
MEASURES OF DIVERSITY
MEASURES OF SPATIAL INTERACTIONS
HYDROLOGY
WATER BUDGET
BED ROUGHNESS
HYDRAULIC RADIUS
FLOOD FREQUENCY
POPULATION
POPULATION CHANGE
DEPENDENCY RATIOS
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX (HDI)
ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT
GINI COEFFICIENT
PREDICTION TOOLS
