GEOGRAPHY AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 657
Spring 2006
SYLLABUS
(Page numbers and Chapter numbers pertain to the text Quantitative Geography (Fotheringham et al))
Chapter One
12 Jan and 17 Jan
Chapter Two, *Supplemental Review of probability distributions and in particular the Normal Distribution
17 Jan, 19 Jan, 24 Jan
Chapter Three, *Supplemental Material on Matrices
26, Jan 31 Jan, 2 Feb
Chapter Four, *Supplemental Material on Principal Components Analysis
Overview of PCA and Multivariate Analysis
14 Feb, 16 Feb , 21 Feb and 23 Feb
* Supplemental materials will be provided as pdf files on the course website
Chapter Five Supplemental Material on Statistical Testing
28 Feb, 2 Mar, 7 Mar and 21 Mar
Spring Break (begins 11 March and ends 19 March
Chapter Six
23 Mar, 28 Mar, 30 Mar and 4 Apr
Chapter Seven
6 Apr, 11 Apr and 13 Apr
Chapter Eight
18 Apr, 20 Apr and 27 Apr
Chapter Nine
Apr 30 and May 2
The FINAL EXAM will be take home. It will be given out in class on 2 May and due at 4:00 PM on 9 May. You may bring to my office or take it to the Department of Mathematics office and they will place it in my mail box