SpatialDataAnalysisintheSocialandEnvironmentalSciences

Withinboththesocialandenvironmentalsciences,muchofthedatacollectediswithinaspatialcontextandrequiresstatisticalanalysisforinterpretation.Thepurposeofthisbookistodescribecurrentmethodsfortheanalysisofspatialdata.Methodsdescribedincludedatadescription,mapinterpolation,andexploratoryandexplanatoryanalyses.Thebookalsoexaminesspatialreferencing,andmethodsfordetectingproblems,assessingtheirseriousnessandtakingappropriateactionarediscussed.Thisisanimportanttextforanydisciplinerequiringabroadoverviewofcurrenttheoreticalandappliedworkfortheanalysisofspatialdatasets.Itwillbeofparticularusetoresearchworkersandfinalyearundergraduatesinthefieldsofgeography,environmentalsciencesandsocialsciences.