Geog 210C: Analytical Methods in Geography III
Spring 2011
Chris Funk
| Lectures: | Tuesday & Thursday | 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm; Ellison 3620 |
| Lab: | Tuesday | 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm; Ellison 3620 |
| Office Hours: | Thursday | 10:00-11:00; Ellison 4716 |
Contact Info:
chris@geog.ucsb.edu
(805) 456 2842
Ellison 4716
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| Audience: | Graduate students in Geography, Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, Marine Science, Sociology and Statistics, interested in: Spatial Statistics & Spatial Data Analysis |
| Prerequisites: | Geog 210B, or equivalent applied statistics course & consent of instructor |
| Textbooks: |
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| Logistics: |
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| WEEK | DATE | TITLE |
| 1 | Mar 29 Mar 31 |
Overview of Statistical Analysis of Spatial Data(.pdf) Univariate Sample Statistics(.pdf) |
| 2 | Apr
05 Apr 07 |
Univariate Random Variables(.pdf) |
| 3 | Apr
12 Apr 14 |
Interaction Analysis of Spatial Point Patterns (.pdf) |
| 4 | Apr 19 Apr 21 |
Descriptive Statistics (Bivariate & Multivariate) (.pdf) |
| 5 | Apr
26 Apr 28 |
Modeling Health Outcomes (.pdf) - Katherine Grace |
| 6 | May
03 May 05 |
Elements of Spatial Stochastic Processes (.pdf) |
| 7 | May
10 May 12 |
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| 8 | May
17 May 19 |
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| 9 | May 24 May 26 |
Principal Component/SVD - I (.pdf) |
| 10 | June
01 June 03 |
SimulatingCovaryingSpatialAndTemporalData (.pdf) |
| R guides |
| Frank Davenport's Guide to R (here) |
| R-Shortref-Card (here) |
| An introduction to R (here) |
| Everitt and Hothorn Intro to R (here) |
| WEEK | LAB | DUE | DESCRIPTION |
| 1 | Mar 30 | Apr 7 | |
| 2 | Apr 5 |
Apr
14 |
Statistical Sampling (.pdf) |
| 3 | Apr 12 | Apr 21 | Intensity Analysis of Spatial Point Patterns (.zip) |
| 4 | Apr 19 |
Apr 28 |
Interaction Analysis of Spatial Point Patterns (.zip) Spatial Point Patterns & CSR (guide) |
| 5 | Apr 26 |
May 05 |
Variograms and Simple Kriging (.zip) |
| 6 | May 03 |
May 12 |
Geostatistics in ArcMap (.pdf) |
| 7 | May
10 |
May 19 |
Modeling non-stationary mean fields + kriging (.zip) |
| 8 | May 17 |
May
26 |
Principal Component Analysis |
| 9 | May
24 |
Jun 02 |
Simulating correlated space-time data |
| FILE | DESCRIPTION |
| ithaca.dat | Weather data for Ithaca NY |
| canandaigua.dat | Weather data for Canandaigua NY |
| FILE | DESCRIPTION |
| Fortin et al. | Spatial analysis in ecology (in
Encyclopedia of Environmetrics) |
| Lancaster & Downes | Spatial point pattern analysis of available
and exploited resources |
| Perry et al. | Illustrations and guidelines for selecting
statistical methods for quantifying spatial pattern in ecological
data |
| Rossi et al. | Geostatistical tools for modeling and
interpreting ecological spatial dependence |
| Gringarten & Deutsch | Variogram interpretation and modeling
(Teacher's Aide) |
| Other good R books |