Spatial data analysis : theory and practice /

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Author / Creator:Haining, Robert P.
Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Description:xx, 432 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4900913
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ISBN:0521773199
0521774373 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 394-423) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 0.1. About the book
  • 0.2. What is spatial data analysis?
  • 0.3. Motivation for the book
  • 0.4. Organization
  • 0.5. The spatial data matrix
  • Part A. The context for spatial data analysis
  • 1. Spatial data analysis: scientific and policy context
  • 1.1. Spatial data analysis in science
  • 1.1.1. Generic issues of place, context and space in scientific explanation
  • (a). Location as place and context
  • (b). Location and spatial relationships
  • 1.1.2. Spatial processes
  • 1.2. Place and space in specific areas of scientific explanation
  • 1.2.1. Defining spatial subdisciplines
  • 1.2.2. Examples: selected research areas
  • (a). Environmental criminology
  • (b). Geographical and environmental (spatial) epidemiology
  • (c). Regional economics and the new economic geography
  • (d). Urban studies
  • (e). Environmental sciences
  • 1.2.3. Spatial data analysis in problem solving
  • 1.3. Spatial data analysis in the policy area
  • 1.4. Some examples of problems that arise in analysing spatial data
  • 1.4.1. Description and map interpretation
  • 1.4.2. Information redundancy
  • 1.4.3. Modelling
  • 1.5. Concluding remarks
  • 2. The nature of spatial data
  • 2.1. The spatial data matrix: conceptualization and representation issues
  • 2.1.1. Geographic space: objects, fields and geometric representations
  • 2.1.2. Geographic space: spatial dependence in attribute values
  • 2.1.3. Variables
  • (a). Classifying variables
  • (b). Levels of measurement
  • 2.1.4. Sample or population?
  • 2.2. The spatial data matrix: its form
  • 2.3. The spatial data matrix: its quality
  • 2.3.1. Model quality
  • (a). Attribute representation
  • (b). Spatial representation: general considerations
  • (c). Spatial representation: resolution and aggregation
  • 2.3.2. Data quality
  • (a). Accuracy
  • (b). Resolution
  • (c). Consistency
  • (d). Completeness
  • 2.4. Quantifying spatial dependence
  • (a). Fields: data from two-dimensional continuous space
  • (b). Objects: data from two-dimensional discrete space
  • 2.5. Concluding remarks
  • Part B. Spatial data: obtaining data and quality issues
  • 3. Obtaining spatial data through sampling
  • 3.1. Sources of spatial data
  • 3.2. Spatial sampling
  • 3.2.1. The purpose and conduct of spatial sampling
  • 3.2.2. Design- and model-based approaches to spatial sampling
  • (a). Design-based approach to sampling
  • (b). Model-based approach to sampling
  • (c). Comparative comments
  • 3.2.3. Sampling plans
  • 3.2.4. Selected sampling problems
  • (a). Design-based estimation of the population mean
  • (b). Model-based estimation of means
  • (c). Spatial prediction
  • (d). Sampling to identify extreme values or detect rare events
  • 3.3. Maps through simulation
  • 4. Data quality: implications for spatial data analysis
  • 4.1. Errors in data and spatial data analysis
  • 4.1.1. Models for measurement error
  • (a). Independent error models
  • (b). Spatially correlated error models
  • 4.1.2. Gross errors
  • (a). Distributional outliers
  • (b). Spatial outliers
  • (c). Testing for outliers in large data sets
  • 4.1.3. Error propagation
  • 4.2. Data resolution and spatial data analysis
  • 4.2.1. Variable precision and tests of significance
  • 4.2.2. The change of support problem
  • (a). Change of support in geostatistics
  • (b). Areal interpolation
  • 4.2.3. Analysing relationships using aggregate data
  • (a). Ecological inference: parameter estimation
  • (b). Ecological inference in environmental epidemiology: identifying valid hypotheses
  • (c). The modifiable areal units problem (MAUP)
  • 4.3. Data consistency and spatial data analysis
  • 4.4. Data completeness and spatial data analysis
  • 4.4.1. The missing-data problem
  • (a). Approaches to analysis when data are missing
  • (b). Approaches to analysis when spatial data are missing
  • 4.4.2. Spatial interpolation, spatial prediction
  • 4.4.3. Boundaries, weights matrices and data completeness
  • 4.5. Concluding remarks
  • Part C. The exploratory analysis of spatial data
  • 5. Exploratory spatial data analysis: conceptual models
  • 5.1. EDA and ESDA
  • 5.2. Conceptual models of spatial variation
  • (a). The regional model
  • (b). Spatial 'rough' and 'smooth'
  • (c). Scales of spatial variation
  • 6. Exploratory spatial data analysis: visualization methods
  • 6.1. Data visualization and exploratory data analysis
  • 6.1.1. Data visualization: approaches and tasks
  • 6.1.2. Data visualization: developments through computers
  • 6.1.3. Data visualization: selected techniques
  • 6.2. Visualizing spatial data
  • 6.2.1. Data preparation issues for aggregated data: variable values
  • 6.2.2. Data preparation issues for aggregated data: the spatial framework
  • (a). Non-spatial approaches to region building
  • (b). Spatial approaches to region building
  • (c). Design criteria for region building
  • 6.2.3. Special issues in the visualization of spatial data
  • 6.3. Data visualization and exploratory spatial data analysis
  • 6.3.1. Spatial data visualization: selected techniques for univariate data
  • (a). Methods for data associated with point or area objects
  • (b). Methods for data from a continuous surface
  • 6.3.2. Spatial data visualization: selected techniques for bi- and multi-variate data
  • 6.3.3. Uptake of breast cancer screening in Sheffield
  • 6.4. Concluding remarks
  • 7. Exploratory spatial data analysis: numerical methods
  • 7.1. Smoothing methods
  • 7.1.1. Resistant smoothing of graph plots
  • 7.1.2. Resistant description of spatial dependencies
  • 7.1.3. Map smoothing
  • (a). Simple mean and median smoothers
  • (b). Introducing distance weighting
  • (c). Smoothing rates
  • (d). Non-linear smoothing: headbanging
  • (e). Non-linear smoothing: median polishing
  • (f). Some comparative examples
  • 7.2. The exploratory identification of global map properties: overall clustering
  • 7.2.1. Clustering in area data
  • 7.2.2. Clustering in a marked point pattern
  • 7.3. The exploratory identification of local map properties
  • 7.3.1. Cluster detection
  • (a). Area data
  • (b). Inhomogeneous point data
  • 7.3.2. Focused tests
  • 7.4. Map comparison
  • (a). Bivariate association
  • (b). Spatial association
  • Part D. Hypothesis testing and spatial autocorrelation
  • 8. Hypothesis testing in the presence of spatial dependence
  • 8.1. Spatial autocorrelation and testing the mean of a spatial data set
  • 8.2. Spatial autocorrelation and tests of bivariate association
  • 8.2.1. Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient
  • 8.2.2. Chi-square tests for contingency tables
  • Part E. Modelling spatial data
  • 9. Models for the statistical analysis of spatial data
  • 9.1. Descriptive models
  • 9.1.1. Models for large-scale spatial variation
  • 9.1.2. Models for small-scale spatial variation
  • (a). Models for data from a surface
  • (b). Models for continuous-valued area data
  • (c). Models for discrete-valued area data
  • 9.1.3. Models with several scales of spatial variation
  • 9.1.4. Hierarchical Bayesian models
  • 9.2. Explanatory models
  • 9.2.1. Models for continuous-valued response variables: normal regression models
  • 9.2.2. Models for discrete-valued area data: generalized linear models
  • 9.2.3. Hierarchical models
  • (a). Adding covariates to hierarchical Bayesian models
  • (b). Modelling spatial context: multi-level models
  • 10. Statistical modelling of spatial variation: descriptive modelling
  • 10.1. Models for representing spatial variation
  • 10.1.1. Models for continuous-valued variables
  • (a). Trend surface models with independent errors
  • (b). Semi-variogram and covariance models
  • (c). Trend surface models with spatially correlated errors
  • 10.1.2. Models for discrete-valued variables
  • 10.2. Some general problems in modelling spatial variation
  • 10.3. Hierarchical Bayesian models
  • 11. Statistical modelling of spatial variation: explanatory modelling
  • 11.1. Methodologies for spatial data modelling
  • 11.1.1. The 'classical' approach
  • 11.1.2. The econometric approach
  • (a). A general spatial specification
  • (b). Two models of spatial pricing
  • 11.1.3. A 'data-driven' methodology
  • 11.2. Some applications of linear modelling of spatial data
  • 11.2.1. Testing for regional income convergence
  • 11.2.2. Models for binary responses
  • (a). A logistic model with spatial lags on the covariates
  • (b). Autologistic models with covariates
  • 11.2.3. Multi-level modelling
  • 11.2.4. Bayesian modelling of burglaries in Sheffield
  • 11.2.5. Bayesian modelling of children excluded from school
  • 11.3. Concluding comments
  • Appendix I. Software
  • Appendix II. Cambridgeshire lung cancer data
  • Appendix III. Sheffield burglary data
  • Appendix IV. Children excluded from school: Sheffield
  • References
  • Index