Perform elementary statistical analyses on real data bases;
Produce satisfactory cartographic documents;
Use cartographic and statistical softwares.
Main themes
This is an introductory course to quantitative analysis and modelling techniques in geography. It is split into two distinct parts:
- the first part insists on the statistical aspects : statistical description, univariate analysis, introduction to regression and classification, spatial statistics, etc.
- the second part concerns cartographic techniques: semiology, thematic mapping, statistical maps, etc.