Numerical Ecology (Volume 24)

by Pierre Legendre, L. Legendre

The book describes and discusses the numerical methods which are successfully being used for analysing ecological data, using a clear and comprehensive approach. These methods are derived from the fields of mathematical physics, parametric and nonparametric statistics, information theory, numerical taxonomy, archaeology, psychometry, sociometry, econometry and others.

Genres: Science

1006 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Pierre Legendre (born June 15, 1930 in Normandy, France) is a French historian of law and psychoanalyst. Legendre holds a position of research director at the École pratique des hautes études. His work is primarily devoted to the history of juristic institutions and concepts (Roman law and Canon law) and to the anthropology of Western civilization.

Legendre has collaborated in the making of a number of films, shown on ARTE and other television stations: The Fashioning of Western Man (1996), Mirror of a Nation: Ecole Nationale d'Administration and Dominium Mundi: The Empire of Management (2007), all produced and distributed by Ideale Audience International, Paris.