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The widespread use of geographical information systems (GIS) has increased the demand for knowledge about spatial analytical techniques across a range of disciplines. This text provides an overview of the latest developments in the field.
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"A severe thunderstorm morphs into a tornado that cuts a swath of destruction through Oklahoma. How do we study the storm's mutation into a deadly twister? Avian flu cases are reported in China. How do we characterize the spread of the flu, potentially preventing an epidemic? The way to answer important questions like these is to analyze the spatial and temporal characteristics--origin, rates, and frequencies--of these phenomena. This comprehensive text introduces advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers to the statistical and algebraic methods used to analyze spatiotemporal data in a range of fields, including climate science, geophysics, ecology, astrophysics, and medicine. Gidon Eshel begins with a concise yet detailed primer on linear algebra, providing readers with the mathematical foundations needed for data analysis. He then fully explains the theory and methods for analyzing spatiotemporal data, guiding readers from the basics to the most advanced applications. This self-contained, practical guide to the analysis of multidimensional data sets features a wealth of real-world examples as well as sample homework exercises and suggested exams"--
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Advances in Econometrics is a research annual whose editorial policy is to publish original research articles that contain enough details so that economists and econometricians who are not experts in the topics will find them accessible and useful in their research. Volume 37 exemplifies this focus by highlighting key research from new developments in econometrics.
Space in economics --- Mathematical models. --- Econometrics --- Spatial analysis (Statistics) --- E-books --- Analysis, Spatial (Statistics) --- Correlation (Statistics) --- Spatial systems --- Economics, Mathematical --- Statistics --- Business & Economics --- Econometrics. --- Economics --- Macroeconomics.
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New powerful technologies, such as geographic information systems (GIS), have been evolving and are quickly becoming part of a worldwide emergent digital infrastructure. Spatial analysis is becoming more important than ever because enormous volumes of spatial data are available from different sources, such as social media and mobile phones. When locational information is provided, spatial analysis researchers can use it to calculate statistical and mathematical relationships through time and space. This book aims to demonstrate how computer methods of spatial analysis and modeling, integrated in a GIS environment, can be used to better understand reality and give rise to more informed and, thus, improved planning. It provides a comprehensive discussion of spatial analysis, methods, and approaches related to planning.
Spatial analysis (Statistics) --- Analysis, Spatial (Statistics) --- Correlation (Statistics) --- Spatial systems --- Geography --- Physical Sciences --- Engineering and Technology --- Spatial Analysis --- Earth and Planetary Sciences
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"Spatial Regression Analysis Using Eigenvector Spatial Filtering provides both theoretical foundations and guidance on practical implementation for the eigenvector spatial filtering (ESF) technique. ESF is a novel and powerful spatial statistical methodology that allows spatial scientists to account for spatial autocorrelation in georeferenced data analyses. With its flexible structure, ESF can be easily applied to generalized linear regression models. The book discusses ESF specifications for various intermediate-level topics, including spatially varying coefficients models, (non) linear mixed models, local spatial autocorrelation, and spatial interaction models. In addition, it provides a tutorial for ESF model specification and interfaces, including author developed, user-friendly software"--
Spatial analysis (Statistics) --- Regression analysis. --- Eigenvectors. --- Matrices --- Vector spaces --- Eigenfactor --- Analysis, Regression --- Linear regression --- Regression modeling --- Multivariate analysis --- Structural equation modeling --- Analysis, Spatial (Statistics) --- Correlation (Statistics) --- Spatial systems
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This text provides a unified spatial model of legislative elections, parties, and roll call voting to address three primary questions: why do legislators adopt extreme positions, how do they win given their extremism, and what role do parties play in promoting polarization? Justin Buchler links spatial models of elections to spatial models of roll call voting in the legislature, and suggests that the key to understanding polarization is to reverse the order of conventional models and place the legislative session before the election because legislators adopt positions in the policy space, extreme or otherwise, through the incremental process of casting roll call votes.
Political parties --- Polarization (Social sciences) --- Spatial analysis (Statistics) --- Political aspects --- United States. --- Elections. --- Voting. --- Analysis, Spatial (Statistics) --- Correlation (Statistics) --- Spatial systems --- Political science --- Social groups --- Social influence
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Spatial Analysis Using Big Data: Methods and Urban Applications helps readers understand the most powerful, state-of-the-art spatial econometric methods, focusing particularly on urban research problems. The methods represent a cluster of potentially transformational socio-economic modeling tools that allow researchers to capture real-time and high-resolution information to potentially reveal new socioeconomic dynamics within urban populations. Each method, written by leading exponents of the discipline, uses real-time urban big data to solve research problems in spatial science. Urban applications of these methods are provided in unsurpassed depth, with chapters on surface temperature mapping, view value analysis, community clustering and spatial-social networks, among many others.
Big data. --- Spatial analysis (Statistics) --- Data processing. --- Data sets, Large --- Large data sets --- Data sets --- Analysis, Spatial (Statistics) --- Correlation (Statistics) --- Spatial systems --- Urban geography
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The aim of this Research Topic is to examine theoretical and experimental work directed at a detailed and comprehensive quantitative understanding of neuroanatomy. Integrating such knowledge with functional data should provide a more complete understanding of how the nervous system in different animal species is organized to generate appropriate behaviour. Three main areas will be covered in this issue. Firstly, progress in understanding neuroanatomical structures from applying novel mathematical and statistical methods. Secondly, experimental or computational work providing a quantitative analysis of microcircuit anatomy, cell distributions, cell morphologies, intracellular compartmentalization etc. Thirdly, experimental or computational studies of structural plasticity, and its effect on neural computations, e.g., changes in spine size and synaptic plasticity; changes in axonal projection patterns and cortical representations. Structural plasticity includes plasticity during development, in response to injury or disease and experience-induced plasticity.
Computational neuroscience. --- Neuroanatomy. --- Nerves --- Nervous system --- Anatomy --- Neurobiology --- Computational neurosciences --- Computational biology --- Neurosciences --- Quantitative morphology --- connectomics --- spatial statistics --- Dendrites --- neuronal modelling
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Spatial Data Analysis: Theory and Practice, first published in 2003, provides a broad ranging treatment of the field of spatial data analysis. It begins with an overview of spatial data analysis and the importance of location (place, context and space) in scientific and policy related research. Covering fundamental problems concerning how attributes in geographical space are represented to the latest methods of exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial modeling, it is designed to take the reader through the key areas that underpin the analysis of spatial data, providing a platform from which to view and critically appreciate many of the key areas of the field. Parts of the text are accessible to undergraduate and master's level students, but it also contains sufficient challenging material that it will be of interest to geographers, social and economic scientists, environmental scientists and statisticians, whose research takes them into the area of spatial analysis.
Spatial analysis (Statistics) --- Geology --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Analysis, Spatial (Statistics) --- Correlation (Statistics) --- Spatial systems --- Statistical methods --- Data processing.