H?gerstrand's father was a teacher at a remote elementary school and the family lived at the school. H?gerstrand recalled that his early education was based on the pedagogical ideas of Swiss educato ...
Bunge was married to Betty, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is father to eldest daughter Susan. . He met and married Donia in 1971. They met in Guadeloupe and married in Canada.He served in the American ...
Chorley grew up in south-west England in an area known as the West Country, with roots in Exmoor and the Vale of Taunton Deane. He was a product of a local primary school and Minehead Grammar School. ...
Peter Haggett, CBE Sc.D. FBA (b. 24 January 1933) is an eminent British geographer and academic, Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow in Urban and Regional Geography at the School of Geograph ...
Studies of Highway Development and Geographic Change (with Brian Berry, Duane Marble, John Nystuen, and Richard Morrill) Greenwood Press, New York. (1959)Tomorrow's Transportation: Changing Cities, Ec ...
In 1961, Tobler received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Washington at Seattle. At Washington, he participated in geography's William Garrison-led quantitative revolution of the late 195 ...
Fred K. Schaefer was born in Berlin, Germany in the family of metal worker. He was involved in politics as a member of Social Democratic party and after the rise of fascism he fled from Nazi Germany. ...
Fisher's null hypothesis testing Neyman–Pearson decision theory1. Set up a statistical null hypothesis. The null need not be a nil hypothesis (i.e., zero difference). 1. Set up two statistical hypoth ...
Statistical hypothesis testing is a key technique of both Frequentist inference and Bayesian inference although they have notable differences. Statistical hypothesis tests define a procedure that cont ...
Main articles: History of statistics and Founders of statisticsStatistical methods date back at least to the 5th century BC.Some scholars pinpoint the origin of statistics to 1663, with the publicatio ...
Statistics is a mathematical body of science that pertains to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data, or as a branch of mathematics. Some consider statistics ...
Many geography departments in the 1950s had recently separated from geology departments in the flux of postwar (World War II) enrollment. Because geologists of the time looked at geography as soft and ...
Born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, Hartshorne completed his undergraduate studies at Princeton University in 1920, and his doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1924Hartshorne taught at the Univers ...
Paul Vidal de la Blache was the son of a professor who subsequently became an academic administrator. He was sent to boarding school at the Institution Favard at the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris. After ...
Alfred Hettner (August 6, 1859, Dresden - August 31, 1941, Heidelberg) was a German geographer.He is known for his concept of chorology, the study of places and regions, a concept that influenced both ...
