ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2 Spatial Measurements and Statistics

Name: ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2 Spatial Measurements and Statistics
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ISBN: 9781589481169

ISBN-10: 158948116X

ISBN-13: 9781589481169

Edition: 2006

Authors: Andy Mitchell

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Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: ESRI, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 7.58" wide x 8.92" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Andy Mitchell is a technical writer with more than 20 years experience in GIS. He is the author of ""The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1: Geographic Patterns and Relationships"" and ""Zeroing In"" and the coauthor of ""Getting Started with ArcGIS,"" He lives in Santa Barbara, California.



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introducing Spatial Measurements and Statistics


What are spatial measurements and statistics?


Geographic analysis with statistics


Understanding data distributions



Measuring Geographic Distributions


Why measure geographic distributions?


Finding the center


Measuring the compactness of the distribution


Measuring orientation and direction


References and further reading


Testing statistical significance



Identifying Patterns


Why identify geographic patterns?


Using statistics to identify patterns


Measuring the pattern of feature locations


Measuring the spatial pattern of feature values


References and further reading


Defining spatial neighborhoods and weights



Identifying Clusters


Why identify spatial clusters?


Using statistics to identify clusters


Finding clusters of features


Finding clusters of similar values


References and further reading


Using statistics with geographic data



Analyzing Geographic Relationships


Why analyze geographic relationships?


Using statistics to analyze relationships


Identifying geographic relationships


Analyzing geographic processes


References and further reading


Data credits


Software credits


Index