Stuart Sweeney 

Mailing Address: Geography Department
University of California, Santa Barbara
Ellison Hall 3611
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060

Office: Ellison 5718 
Telephone: (805) 893-5647 
FAX: (805) 893-3146

Email: sweeney@geog.ucsb.edu

LECTURE:

Introduction to Spatial Analysis

LAB:

Beach lab (point pattern)

GeoDa lab 1: S.B. housing data (area data)

GeoDa lab 2: Nepal population (area data)

SOFTWARE LINKS:

SPATSTAT (http://www.spatstat.org/)

GeoDA

STARS

READINGS:

ESDA and Spatial Regression:

Anselin, Luc (2002) Under the Hood. Issues in the Specification and Interpretation of Spatial Regression Models

Anselin, Luc (2004) GeoDa: An Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis

Issues in point pattern analysis of social science data:

Sweeney and Konty (2004) Robust point pattern inference from spatially censored data

Sweeney and Feser (2002) Business location and spatial externalities: tying concepts to measures

Space-time analysis:

Rey, S. and M. Janikas (2004) STARS: Space-Time Analysis of Regional Systems

Student Help Files:

Rosana Lee (R code and associated files)

Kiyah (coming soon)

Chris (coming soon)