Spatial Statistics Through Applications
Published on 27. August 2002
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-1-85312-649-9 (ISBN)
Description
Spatial statistics has emerged as an important new field of science with a great power for visualization. This volume provides an overview of existing methodology, together with details of new theoretical developments and some practical applications. Although the coverage is broad and the topics diverse, the same themes recur thus highlighting the underlying unity of the field.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Southampton
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85312-649-9 (9781853126499)
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Content
Introduction to spatial statistics and its applications. Part I general and methodological issues: A spatial perspective on decision-making methods and processes; Perfect simulation in spatial statistics; Spatial point processes - an overview. Part II - Environmental applications and climate issues: Spatial interpolation of environmental processes; Nonparametric nearest neighbour variogram estimation; Semi-parametric statistical approaches for space-time process prediction, Some applications; Extreme value analysis of wind speed in Great Britain; Modelling extreme rainfall events; Statistical methods for field analysis used in climatology. Par III - Epidemiology and point processes issues Bayesian approach for investigating the relationship between road traffic pollution and asthma among children; Analysis of cancer mortality via spatial point processes; An application of marked point processes to the extraction of linear networks from images; Statistical tools for spatial ecomonics.