Download or read book Quantitative Techniques in Geography written by Robert Hammond and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1978 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new and enlarged edition contains extra material on a number of topics, including geography and computers, transformation and combination of data, cluster sampling, the use of surrogates and linear programming. As in the first edition the authors attempt to give an insight into some of the techniques and underlying concepts of numerical analysis which form such an integral part of modern geography. Worked examples and exercises for the student are included throughout the text. The examples are taken from both physical and human geography.