Geography studies spatial variation of human activity and physical features, focusing on spatial integration and interrelationships between different variables. A common geographic study, therefore, may include empirical data analysis, statistical summaries, and constructing and testing geographic theories.
Statistics is an important part of modern geographic research.
Quantitative revolution, and the growth of importance of statistical analysis in geography. Specific statistical tasks that geographers work on. Language accepted in science 5. Statistics may provide support for an explanation. A proposition or postulate which is as yet unproved but which is tentatively accepted in order to test its accord with facts or relationships to be determined.