GEOG 2P07 Lecture Notes - Quadrat, Frequency Distribution, Ideal World
3 Dec 2011
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Exam **rulers and coloured pens pencil and pens! Geographers study settlement patterns, land-use patterns, drainage patters, etc. Pattern" implies some form of spatial regularity which is taken as a sign of a regular. We may also be interested in the attributes (e. g. , tree species type) that are attached to points. Spatial arrangement or distribution of objects/events/cases (represented by points or areas) is of interest yet are often difficult to describe (qualitatively) Today we are talking about how we use them quantitatively *** - patterns and relationships. So, how we can distinguish these patterns statistically so we can conclude that one is. Significantly more clustered and the other is significantly more dispersed without knowing anything else about these patterns? (we can test each pattern against a random point pattern. Too clustered to have occurred by chance. Too dispersed to have occurred by changed so they are significantly random. These data can also be represented by point locations.
