Spatial statistics for geographic information science

Abstract

This book has been written to assist GISc students in learning the statistical analysis of spatial data. Due to interdispciplinary nature of GISc, land surveyors, geographers, town planners, geologists, epidemiologists, engineers, environmentalists, economists and business analysts will find this book a valuable reference on the subject matter. Chapters have been presented systematically on the essential elements of spatial statistics: Statistics and GISc; Descriptive Statistics; Probability Distributions; Statistical Inference; Comparative Statistics; Correlation and Autocorrelation; Spatial Autocorrelation; Simple Linear Regression and Multiple Linear Regression. Numerical examples are included when relevant issues are discussed in each of the chapters. Each chapter ends with revision questions.