For environmental scientist, data analysis might be the only way to show your ability when you get the data from observation. I found many students even researcher showed their data in a bad way and many data analysis pattern just came from certain one paper. However, data analysis methods always have their scopes and some methods might just not suit your cases.
Thanks to data analysis software, you need not to calculate some values by hand. But to make their usage clear, you need to know the basic idea. I will show some basic ideas behind certain method in a few posts. The first one …