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Spatial Statistics

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Synonyms

Geocomputation; Geostatistics; Spatial analysis

Glossary

Correlation/covariance

Measures of similarity between observations

Geostatistics

A branch of spatial statistics

Isotropy

Property of covariance and variogram functions that make them is invariant under rotation of locations

Kriging

Method for linear unbiased prediction

Random field

A collection of random variables indexed by location

Stationarity

Property of random fields in which their mean and covariance functions are invariant under translation of locations

Variogram/semivariogram

Measures of dissimilarity between observations

Definition

Spatial statistics is a branch of statistics that studies methods to make inference based on data observed over spatial regions. In typical applications these regions are either 2- or 3-dimensional. The methodology is mostly aimed at accounting and modeling aspects of the so-called First Law of Geography: attributes from locations that are closer together are more closely related than...

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Edgar Muñoz for producing Fig. 4. The first author was partially supported by National Science Foundation Grant HRD-0932339.

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  1. Department of Management Science and Statistics, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78249, USA

    Victor Oliveira

  2. Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 79409-1042, USA

    A. Alexandre Trindade

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    Suheil Khoury

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Oliveira, V., Alexandre Trindade, A. (2016). Spatial Statistics. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_167-1

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