Geography

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

Document Type

Book

Abstract

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 book’s author claims your test has a 50% chance of being false, given your test’s result. Who do you believe? This book gives you insights necessary to interpret metrics that make a difference in life’s 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 book’s 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.

Publication Title

Advances in Geographic Information Science

Publication Date

1-1-2022

First Page

1

Last Page

117

ISSN

1867-2442

ISBN

9783030707651

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-70765-1

Keywords

binary, exchange, Pontius Matrix, quantity, GIS, remote Sensing, continuous variables, Boolean variables, rank variable, hard categorical variables, soft categorical variables, multiple spatial resolutions, vector variables, indices of agreement

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