Metrics That Make a Difference

Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr is a Professor in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University in the United States. He earned his Master of Applied Statistics from The Ohio State University and his doctorate in Environmental Science from the State University of New York. Professor Pontius is an experienced statistician with expertise in Land Change Science and Geographic Information Science. He is renowned for creating quantitative methods that are essential for analyzing change and error in a variety of fields. His methods appear in the GIS & Image Processing software TerrSet, which has over 100,000 users worldwide.

• Chapter 1: Binary Variable Versus Binary Variable.- Chapter 2: Binary Variable Versus Rank Variable.- Chapter 3: Application of the Total Operating Characteristic.- Chapter 4: Categorical Variable Versus Categorical Variable.- Chapter 5: Application to Categorical Error Assessment with Sampling.- Chapter 6: Multiple Spatial Resolutions for Categorical Variables.- Chapter 7: Application to Categorical Temporal Change.- Chapter 8: Interval Variable Versus Interval Variable.- Chapter 9: Application to Interval Temporal Change.- Chapter 10: Indices of Agreement.- Chapter 11: Vector Variable Versus Vector Variable.- Chapter 12: Commandments to Avoid Deadly Sins.