Selected Texts on Various Quantitative Methods
This is not meant to be the definitive listing of sources on
the
subject, but rather books that I have found useful
in my career. I hope you find some of them useful as well.
General Overview
Waltham, David,
Mathematics: A simpler Tool for Geologists (2nd ed.),
Blackwell
Publishing, ISBN 0-632-05345-3, 2000.
Statistical Methods
Davis, J. Statistics and Data
Analysis in Geology, 3rd Edition, ISBN
0-471-17275-8.
Devor
J., and Peck R., Statistics, The exploration and
Analysis of
Data, West Publishing, ISBN 0-314-93172-4, 1986.
Kachigan, S.K., Statistical Analysis, An Interdisciplinary
Introduction
to Univariate and Multivariate Methods, Radius Press,
ISBN,
0-942154-99-1, 1986.
Snedecor, G.W., and Cochran, W.G., Statistical Methods,
8th Ed., Iowa
State University Press, ISBN 0-8138-1561-4, 1992.
Tabachnick, B.G, and Fidell,
L.S., Using Multivariate Statistics, 2nd ed., Harper
Collins, ISBN
0-06-046571-9, 1989.
Mathematics
Kaplan, Wilfred,
Advanced Mathematics for Engineers, Addison-Wesley, ISBN
0-201-03773-4,
1981.
Pelletier,
Donald H., Linear Algebra: A Comprehensive Introduction,
Prentice-Hall,
ISBN 0-8359-4064-0, 1986.
Swokowski, Earl, W., Calculus with Analytic Geometry, Prindle,
Weber
& Schmidt, ISBN 0-8715-341-7, 1983.
Numerical Methods
and Data
Visualization
Carr,
J.R., Data Visualization in the Geosciences, Prentice
Hall, ISBN
0-13-089706-X, 2002.
Hamming,
R.W., Numerical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, 2nd
ed., Dover
Publications, ISBN 0-486-6541-6, 1973.
Press
et al., Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN, The Art of
Scientific Computing
(2nd Edition),
Cambridge
University Press, ISBN
0-521-43064-X.
(Note that there are also versions of this book written
for use with
other programing languages such as C++ and PASCAL)