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Collecting, Managing, and Assessing Data Using Sample Surveys provides a thorough, step-by-step guide to the design and implementation of surveys. Beginning with a primer on basic statistics, the first half of the book takes readers on a comprehensive tour through the basics of survey design. Topics covered include the ethics of surveys, the design of survey procedures, the design of the survey instrument, how to write questions and how to draw representative samples. Having shown readers how to design surveys, the second half of the book discusses a number of issues surrounding their implementation, including repetitive surveys, the economics of surveys, web-based surveys, coding and data entry, data expansion and weighting, the issue of non-response, and the documenting and archiving of survey data. The book is an excellent introduction to the use of surveys for graduate students as well as a useful reference work for scholars and professionals.

Business, Economy and Management --- Economics --- Surveys --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Design. --- Methodology. --- Random sampling --- Statistics of sampling --- Statistics --- Mathematical statistics --- Government surveys --- Mathematical geography

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This volume of 12 studies, mainly published during the past 15 years, begins with an overview of the Islamic astronomy covering not only sophisticated mathematical astronomy and instrumentation but also simple folk astronomy, and the ways in which astronomy was used in the service of religion. It continues with discussions of the importance of Islamic instruments and scientific manuscript illustrations. Three studies deal with the regional schools that developed in Islamic astronomy, in this case, Egypt and the Maghrib. Another focuses on a curious astrological table for calculating the length of life of any individual. The notion of the world centred on the sacred Kaaba in Mecca inspired both astronomers and proponents of folk astronomy to propose methods for finding the qibla, or sacred direction towards the Kaaba; their activities are surveyed here. The interaction between the mathematical and folk traditions in astronomy is then illustrated by an 11th-century text on the qibla in Transoxania. The last three studies deal with an account of the geodetic measurements sponsored by the Caliph al-Ma'mun in the 9th century; a world-map in the tradition of the 11th-century polymath al-Biruni, alas corrupted by careless copying; and a table of geographical coordinates from 15th-century Egypt.

Astronomy --- Astronomical geography --- Astronomie --- Géographie astronomique --- History --- Mathematics --- Histoire --- Mathématiques --- Islamic astronomy --- History. --- Géographie astronomique --- Mathématiques --- Muslim astronomy --- Physical sciences --- Space sciences --- Geography, Astronomical --- Mathematical geography --- Mathematics&delete&

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Roger McCoy recounts the 400-year effort to map North America's coasts. Much of the book is based on the narratives of mariners who sought a passage through the continent to Asia and produced maps as a by-product of their journeys. These explorers had to rely on rudimentary mapping tools and to contend with unimaginably harsh conditions. Telling the story from the explorers' perspective, the book shows how maps of their voyages were made and why they were so full of errors, as well as how they gradually acquired greater accuracy, especially after the longitude problem was solved.

Cartography --- Atlantic Coast (North America) --- Pacific Coast (North America) --- Maps --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- West Coast (North America) --- Western Coast (North America) --- East Coast (North America) --- Eastern Coast (North America) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection

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Navigation --- Maps. --- Cartography. --- Geodesy. --- Degrees of latitude and longitude --- Geodetics --- Geophysics --- Geomatics --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Map projection --- Maps --- Plans --- Cartographic materials --- Geography --- Cartography --- Maritime history --- History.

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Coasts --- Cartography --- Maps --- 912 <26> --- 912 <481> --- Cartography, Primitive --- Chartography --- Map-making --- Mapmaking --- Mapping (Cartography) --- Mathematical geography --- Surveying --- Map projection --- Coastal landforms --- Coastal zones --- Coastlines --- Landforms --- Seashore --- History --- Cartography. Maps. Atlasses--Oceanen. Zeeën. Zeestraten en zeeverbindingen --- Cartografie. Kaarten. Plattegronden. Atlassen--Noorwegen --- Geodesie. Cartografie --- cartografie --- anno 1500-1799 --- Noorwegen --- Geodesy. Cartography --- cartography [discipline] --- Norway