Title: Course Content
Course: Basic (spatial) statistics

The purpose of this course is to provide participants with the knowledge necessary to necessary to conduct basic spatial statistics using R.

Everything happens somewhere.  The advent of geographical information systems has led to the rampant availability of space dimension in many environmental datasets. Many environmental processes are continuous in nature, hence such processes likely exhibit spatial autocorrelation; the situation where by closeness in space implies closeness in attribute. Therefore analysis of such data require careful consideration of spatial autocorrelation.

This course takes students through a tour of important statistical methods for analyzing spatial data, spatial statistics. The document is carefully developed to first introduce students to basic statistics. Applications and sample scripts in R have also been included. For the substantive sections, tutorial materials have been developed and are provided.