Spatial Data Analysis in the Social and Environmental Sciences

Spatial Data Analysis in the Social and Environmental Sciences
Author: Robert P. Haining
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1993-08-26
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521448666

Within both the social and environmental sciences, much of the data collected is within a spatial context and requires statistical analysis for interpretation. The purpose of this book is to describe current methods for the analysis of spatial data. Methods described include data description, map interpolation, and exploratory and explanatory analyses. The book also examines spatial referencing, and methods for detecting problems, assessing their seriousness and taking appropriate action are discussed. This is an important text for any discipline requiring a broad overview of current theoretical and applied work for the analysis of spatial data sets. It will be of particular use to research workers and final year undergraduates in the fields of geography, environmental sciences and social sciences.

Spatial Data Analysis

Spatial Data Analysis
Author: Robert P. Haining
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2003-04-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521774376

Spatial Data Analysis: Theory and Practice, first published in 2003, provides a broad ranging treatment of the field of spatial data analysis. It begins with an overview of spatial data analysis and the importance of location (place, context and space) in scientific and policy related research. Covering fundamental problems concerning how attributes in geographical space are represented to the latest methods of exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial modeling, it is designed to take the reader through the key areas that underpin the analysis of spatial data, providing a platform from which to view and critically appreciate many of the key areas of the field. Parts of the text are accessible to undergraduate and master's level students, but it also contains sufficient challenging material that it will be of interest to geographers, social and economic scientists, environmental scientists and statisticians, whose research takes them into the area of spatial analysis.

Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences

Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences
Author: David Darmofal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2015-11-12
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0521888263

This book shows how to model the spatial interactions between actors that are at the heart of the social sciences.

Spatial Analysis Methods and Practice

Spatial Analysis Methods and Practice
Author: George Grekousis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2020-06-11
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1108498981

An introductory overview of spatial analysis and statistics through GIS, including worked examples and critical analysis of results.

Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R

Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R
Author: Roger S. Bivand
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2013-06-21
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1461476186

Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, second edition, is divided into two basic parts, the first presenting R packages, functions, classes and methods for handling spatial data. This part is of interest to users who need to access and visualise spatial data. Data import and export for many file formats for spatial data are covered in detail, as is the interface between R and the open source GRASS GIS and the handling of spatio-temporal data. The second part showcases more specialised kinds of spatial data analysis, including spatial point pattern analysis, interpolation and geostatistics, areal data analysis and disease mapping. The coverage of methods of spatial data analysis ranges from standard techniques to new developments, and the examples used are largely taken from the spatial statistics literature. All the examples can be run using R contributed packages available from the CRAN website, with code and additional data sets from the book's own website. Compared to the first edition, the second edition covers the more systematic approach towards handling spatial data in R, as well as a number of important and widely used CRAN packages that have appeared since the first edition. This book will be of interest to researchers who intend to use R to handle, visualise, and analyse spatial data. It will also be of interest to spatial data analysts who do not use R, but who are interested in practical aspects of implementing software for spatial data analysis. It is a suitable companion book for introductory spatial statistics courses and for applied methods courses in a wide range of subjects using spatial data, including human and physical geography, geographical information science and geoinformatics, the environmental sciences, ecology, public health and disease control, economics, public administration and political science. The book has a website where complete code examples, data sets, and other support material may be found: http://www.asdar-book.org. The authors have taken part in writing and maintaining software for spatial data handling and analysis with R in concert since 2003.

Geographical Data Science and Spatial Data Analysis

Geographical Data Science and Spatial Data Analysis
Author: Lex Comber
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2020-12-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1526485435

We are in an age of big data where all of our everyday interactions and transactions generate data. Much of this data is spatial – it is collected some-where – and identifying analytical insight from trends and patterns in these increasing rich digital footprints presents a number of challenges. Whilst other books describe different flavours of Data Analytics in R and other programming languages, there are none that consider Spatial Data (i.e. the location attached to data), or that consider issues of inference, linking Big Data, Geography, GIS, Mapping and Spatial Analytics. This is a ‘learning by doing’ textbook, building on the previous book by the same authors, An Introduction to R for Spatial Analysis and Mapping. It details the theoretical issues in analyses of Big Spatial Data and developing practical skills in the reader for addressing these with confidence.

Spatial Data Analysis in Ecology and Agriculture Using R

Spatial Data Analysis in Ecology and Agriculture Using R
Author: Richard E. Plant
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2020-12-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9780367732325

Key features: Unique in its combination of serving as an introduction to spatial statistics and to modeling agricultural and ecological data using R Provides exercises in each chapter to facilitate the book's use as a course textbook or for self-study Adds new material on generalized additive models, point pattern analysis, and new methods of Bayesian analysis of spatial data. Includes a completely revised chapter on the analysis of spatiotemporal data featuring recently introduced software and methods Updates its coverage of R software including newly introduced packages Spatial Data Analysis in Ecology and Agriculture Using R, 2nd Edition provides practical instruction on the use of the R programming language to analyze spatial data arising from research in ecology, agriculture, and environmental science. Readers have praised the book's practical coverage of spatial statistics, real-world examples, and user-friendly approach in presenting and explaining R code, aspects maintained in this update. Using data sets from cultivated and uncultivated ecosystems, the book guides the reader through the analysis of each data set, including setting research objectives, designing the sampling plan, data quality control, exploratory and confirmatory data analysis, and drawing scientific conclusions. Additional material to accompany the book, on both analyzing satellite data and on multivariate analysis, can be accessed at https: //www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/plant/additionaltopics.htm.

Spatial Data Analysis

Spatial Data Analysis
Author: Manfred M. Fischer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 85
Release: 2011-08-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3642217206

The availability of spatial databases and widespread use of geographic information systems has stimulated increasing interest in the analysis and modelling of spatial data. Spatial data analysis focuses on detecting patterns, and on exploring and modelling relationships between them in order to understand the processes responsible for their emergence. In this way, the role of space is emphasised , and our understanding of the working and representation of space, spatial patterns, and processes is enhanced. In applied research, the recognition of the spatial dimension often yields different and more meaningful results and helps to avoid erroneous conclusions. This book aims to provide an introduction into spatial data analysis to graduates interested in applied statistical research. The text has been structured from a data-driven rather than a theory-based perspective, and focuses on those models, methods and techniques which are both accessible and of practical use for graduate students. Exploratory techniques as well as more formal model-based approaches are presented, and both area data and origin-destination flow data are considered.

Geographically Weighted Regression

Geographically Weighted Regression
Author: A. Stewart Fotheringham
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2003-02-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0470855258

Geographical Weighted Regression (GWR) is a new local modelling technique for analysing spatial analysis. This technique allows local as opposed to global models of relationships to be measured and mapped. This is the first and only book on this technique, offering comprehensive coverage on this new 'hot' topic in spatial analysis. * Provides step-by-step examples of how to use the GWR model using data sets and examples on issues such as house price determinants, educational attainment levels and school performance statistics * Contains a broad discussion of and basic concepts on GWR through to ideas on statistical inference for GWR models * uniquely features accompanying author-written software that allows users to undertake sophisticated and complex forms of GWR within a user-friendly, Windows-based, front-end (see book for details).

Scale in Spatial Information and Analysis

Scale in Spatial Information and Analysis
Author: Jingxiong Zhang
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1439829381

Now ubiquitous in modern life, spatial data present great opportunities to transform many of the processes on which we base our everyday lives. However, not only do these data depend on the scale of measurement, but also handling these data (e.g., to make suitable maps) requires that we account for the scale of measurement explicitly. Scale in Spat