The field of study concerning statistical methods that use space and spatial relationships (such as distance, area, volume, length, height, orientation, centrality and/or other spatial characteristics of data) directly in their mathematical computations.
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Spatial statistics tools : clustering analysis on raster data
I've an apparently simple problem, but i can't find a clear methodology to use.
I'm tasked to delimit "urban areas" by vector convex polygons, using the Gridded Population of the World dataset from ...
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How do you produce a output table containing distances between mineral grains at various azimuthal directions?
I am using ArcGIS 10, the newest version and I am a senior at Western Carolina University and working on my senior thesis and the data set in which I have are images of mineral thin sections all ...
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Visualization to inference workflow
I provide statistical support for a public health department. As you might imagine, we put together a lot of maps on a regular basis. For me, maps are just another kind of data visualization - ...
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statistics by rectangle (raster image)
I have a shp file with some rectangles and I want to extract statistics within these areas from a raster image. I prefer ArcMap 9.3.
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Statistical relationships between rasters
I am trying to analyze how sets of rasters relate to each other using some statistical techniques. As, I don't have much experience using the spatial statistics tools in ArcGIS I was exporting my ...
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rmse between two rasters step-by-step
can anyone show how to calculate the RMSE (root mean square error) between following two rasters step-by-step and discuss on the obtained results' min and max values, and how to interpret it. Thanks a ...
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R to ArcGIS 9.3.1 or 10
I m trying to learn R generally and making statistics for maps. I found some useful tricks for making maps with it but it is not the best you can do. My everyday GIS program is ArcGIS. How I can use ...
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Monitoring programmes
I am not sure if it is a right place to ask this one but let me try.
Monitoring programmes are known for various targets and for various spatial levels.
They may include regions, countries or even ...
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Using R with ArcGIS Desktop
In response to comments below, a re-phrasing of the question.
I've used the integration of R with QGIS, and found it a very uesful tool. Having taken a look at the R toolbox extension for 9 and the ...
