| 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. |
| 9-10 | Mapping rates for regions |
Spatial smoothing, regression |
| 11-12 | Complete spatial randomness | Monte Carlo tests, distance-based tests of CSR
Tests of CSR |
| 13-14 | More point processes | Poisson cluster and Cox processes,
Nearest-neighbor distance distributions, K function |