书目名称 | Metrics That Make a Difference |
副标题 | How to Analyze Chang |
编辑 | Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr |
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概述 | Provides novel quantitative methods and software to measure change and error.Explains concepts in clear language, equations, and graphics that rectify popular misconceptions.Gives unique insights for |
丛书名称 | Advances in Geographic Information Science |
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描述 | .Your government warns that 10% of your neighbors have a deadly contagious virus. The producer of a diagnostic test advertises that 90% of its tests are correct for any population. The test indicates that you have the virus. This book’s author claims your test has a 50% chance of being false, given your test’s result. Who do you believe? This book gives you insights necessary to interpret metrics that make a difference in life’s decisions..This book gives methods and software that are essential to analyze change and error. Change describes a phenomenon across time points. Error compares diagnoses with the truth. Other texts give insufficient attention to these topics. This book’s novel ideas dispel popular misconceptions and replace previous methods. The author uses carefully designed graphics and high school mathematics to communicate easily with college students and advanced scientists. Applications include but are not limited to Remote Sensing, Land Change Science, and Geographic Information Science..“A. .wide range of tools to aid understanding of land cover and its change has been used but scientific progress has sometimes been limited through misuse and misunderstanding. Prof |
出版日期 | Book 2022 |
关键词 | GIS; Remote Sensing; Continuous variables; Boolean variables; Rank variable; Hard categorical variables; S |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70765-1 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-70767-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-70765-1Series ISSN 1867-2434 Series E-ISSN 1867-2442 |
issn_series | 1867-2434 |
copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 |