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Contents

Preface V

1 Data Analysis in Earth Sciences 1

1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Collecting Data 1
1.3 Types of Data 3
1.4 Methods of Data Analysis 7

2 Introduction to MATLAB 11

2.1 MATLAB in Earth Sciences 11
2.2 Getting Started 12
2.3 The Syntax 15
2.4 Data Storage 19
2.5 Data Handling 19
2.6 Scripts and Functions 21
2.7 Basic Visualization Tools 25

3 Univariate Statistics 29

3.1 Introduction 29
3.2 Empirical Distributions 29
3.3 Example of Empirical Distributions 36
3.4 Theoretical Distributions 41
3.5 Example of Theoretical Distributions 50
3.6 The t–Test 51
3.7 The F–Test 53
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3.8 The χ –Test 56