Spatial Data Analysis: Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780521774376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 454 str.

Robert P. Haining; Robert Haining

Opis

Are there geographic clusters of disease cases, or hotspots of crime? Can the geography of air quality be matched to where people hospitalized for respiratory complaints actually live? Spatial data is data about the world where the attribute of interest and its location on the earth's surface are recorded. This comprehensive overview of the subject shows how the above questions can be tackled. It is written for students and researchers in geography, economics, social science, the environmental sciences and statistics.

Spis treści

Preface; Readership; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Context for Spatial Data Analysis: 1. Spatial data analysis: scientific and policy context; 2. The nature of spatial data; Part II. Spatial Data: Obtaining Data And Quality Issues: 3. Obtaining spatial data through sampling; 4. Data quality: implications for spatial data analysis; Part III. The Exploratory Analysis of Spatial Data: 5. Exploratory analysis of spatial data; 6. Exploratory spatial data analysis: visualisation methods; 7. Exploratory spatial data analysis: numerical methods; Part IV. Hypothesis Testing in the Presence of Spatial Autocorrelation: 8. Hypothesis testing in the presence of spatial dependence; Part V. Modeling Spatial Data: 9. Models for the statistical analysis of spatial data; 10. Statistical modeling of spatial variation: descriptive modeling; 11. Statistical modeling of spatial variation: explanatory modeling; Appendices; References; Index.