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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface to the First Edition | |
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| Geographic Information Analysis and Spatial Data | |
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| Chapter Objectives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Spatial Data Types | |
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| Some Complications | |
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| Scales for Attribute Description | |
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| GIS and Spatial Data Manipulation | |
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| The Road Ahead | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| References | |
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| The Pitfalls and Potential of Spatial Data | |
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| Chapter Objectives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Bad News: The Pitfalls of Spatial Data | |
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| The Good News: The Potential of Spatial Data | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| References | |
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| Fundamentals-Mapping It Out | |
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| Chapter Objectives | |
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| Introduction: The Cartographic Tradition | |
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| Geovisualization and Analysis | |
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| The Graphic Variables of Jacques Bertin | |
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| New Graphic Variables | |
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| Issues in Geovisualization | |
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| Mapping and Exploring Points | |
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| Mapping and Exploring Areas | |
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| Mapping and Exploring Fields | |
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| The Spatialization of Nonspatial Data | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| References | |
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| Fundamentals-Maps as Outcomes of Processes | |
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| Chapter Objectives | |
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| Introduction: Maps and Processes | |
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| Processes and the Patterns They Make | |
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| Predicting the Pattern Generated by a Process | |
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| More Definitions | |
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| Stochastic Processes in Lines, Areas, and Fields | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| References | |
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| Point Pattern Analysis | |
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| Chapter Objectives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Describing a Point Pattern | |
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| Assessing Point Patterns Statistically | |
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| Monte Carlo Testing | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| References | |
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| Practical Point Pattern Analysis | |
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| Chapter Objectives | |
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| Introduction: Problems of Spatial Statistical Analysis | |
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| Alternatives to Classical Statistical Inference | |
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| Alternatives to IRP/CSR | |
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| Point Pattern Analysis in the Real World | |
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| Dealing with Inhomogeneity | |
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| Focused Approaches | |
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| Cluster Detection: Scan Statistics | |
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| Using Density and Distance: Proximity Polygons | |
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| A Note on Distance Matrices and Point Pattern Analysis | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| References | |
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| Area Objects and Spatial Autocorrelation | |
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| Chapter Objectives | |
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| Introduction: Area Objects Revisited | |
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| Types of Area Objects | |
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| Geometric Properties of Areas | |
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| Measuring Spatial Autocorrelation | |
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| An Example: Tuberculosis in Auckland, 2001-2006 | |
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| Other Approaches | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| References | |
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| Local Statistics | |
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| Chapter Objectives | |
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| Introduction: Think Geographically, Measure Locally | |
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| Defining the Local: Spatial Structure (Again) | |
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| An Example: The Getis-Ord G<sub>i</sub> and G<sub>i<sub><sup>*</sup> Statistics | |
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| Inference with Local Statistics | |
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| Other Local Statistics | |
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| Conclusions: Seeing the World Locally | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| References | |
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| Describing and Analyzing Fields | |
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| Chapter Objectives | |
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| Introduction: Scalar and Vector Fields Revisited | |
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| Modeling and Storing Field Data | |
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| Spatial Interpolation | |
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| Derived Measures on Surfaces | |
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| Map Algebra | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| References | |
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| Knowing the Unknowable: The Statistics of Fields | |
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| Chapter Objectives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Regression on Spatial Coordinates: Trend Surface Analysis | |
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| The Square Root Differences Cloud and the (Semi-) Variogram | |
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| A Statistical Approach to Interpolation: Kriging | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| References | |
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| Putting Maps Together-Map Overlay | |
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| Chapter Objectives | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Boolean Map Overlay and Sieve Mapping | |
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| A General Model for Alternatives to Boolean Overlay | |
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| Indexed Overlay and Weighted Linear Combination | |
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| Weights of Evidence | |
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| Model-Driven Overlay Using Regression | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| References | |
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| New Approaches to Spatial Analysis | |
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| Chapter Objectives | |
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| The Changing Technological Environment | |
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| The Changing Scientific Environment | |
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| Geocomputation | |
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| Spatial Models | |
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| The Grid and the Cloud: Supercomputing for Dummies | |
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| Conclusions: Neogeographic Information Analysis? | |
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| Chapter Review | |
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| References | |
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| Notation, Matrices, and Matrix Mathematics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Some Preliminary Notes on Notation | |
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| Matrix Basics and Notation | |
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| Simple Matrix Mathematics | |
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| Solving Simultaneous Equations Using Matrices | |
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| Matrices, Vectors, and Geometry | |
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| Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues | |
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| Reference | |
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| Index | |