Metrics That Make a Difference: How to Analyze Change and Error by Robert Gilmor

Description: Metrics That Make a Difference by Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This book gives you insights necessary to interpret metrics that make a difference in lifes decisions.This book gives methods and software that are essential to analyze change and error. Publisher Description 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 books author claims your test has a 50% chance of being false, given your tests result. Who do you believe? This book gives you insights necessary to interpret metrics that make a difference in lifes 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 books 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. Professor Pontius seeks to rectify this situation by providing a book to accompany the researchers toolbox. Metrics That Make a Difference addresses basic issues of relevance to a broad community in a mathematically friendly way and should greatly enhance the ability to elicit correct information. I wish this book existed while I was a grad student." – Giles Foody, Professor of Geographical Information Science, The University of Nottingham"Metrics That Make a Difference provides a comprehensive synthesis of over two decades of work during which Dr. Pontius researched, developed, and applied these metrics. The book meticulously and successfully guides the reader through the conceptual basis, computations, and proper interpretation of themany metrics derived for different types of variables. The book is not just a mathematical treatise but includes practical guidance to good data analysis and good science. Data scientists from many fields of endeavor will benefit substantially from Dr. Pontius articulate review of traditionally used metrics and his presentation of the innovative and novel metrics he has developed. While reading this book, I had multiple aha moments about metrics that I shouldnt be using and metrics that I should be using instead." – Stephen Stehman, Distinguished Teaching Professor, State University of New York Author Biography Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr is a Professor in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University in the United States. He earned his Master of Applied Statistics from The Ohio State University and his doctorate in Environmental Science from the State University of New York. Professor Pontius is an experienced statistician with expertise in Land Change Science and Geographic Information Science. He is renowned for creating quantitative methods that are essential for analyzing change and error in a variety of fields. His methods appear in the GIS & Image Processing software TerrSet, which has over 100,000 users worldwide. Details ISBN 3030707644 ISBN-13 9783030707644 Title Metrics That Make a Difference Author Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr Format Hardcover Year 2022 Pages 117 Edition 1st Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG GE_Item_ID:160887783; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. 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