Syllabus
PubH 8436 Spatial Biostatistics- Spring 2001



TENTATIVE COURSE OUTLINE:

Week Topic
1 Intro to types of spatial data Description of geostatistical, lattice and point process data with examples, Exploratory data analysis with simple descriptive statistics and graphing tools.
2 Spatial Autocorrelation why worry about it, how to test for it, how to measure global autocorrelation- Moran's I, join count statistics.
3-4 Measuring autocorrelation at different lags Stationarity, variograms, covariograms, estimating variograms
5-6 Spatial prediciton at unsampled location Kriging: ordinary and universal, Cross-validation
7-8 Regression with spatially correlated errors Estimated generalized least squares, spatial autoregressive models.
9-10Mapping rates for regions Spatial smoothing, regression
11-12 Complete spatial randomnessMonte Carlo tests, distance-based tests of CSR Tests of CSR
13-14More point processes Poisson cluster and Cox processes, Nearest-neighbor distance distributions, K function