Spatial Data Analysis.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours (delivered online or face-to-face). 3 credits. Prerequisites: BIOS 543 and BIOS 544 or permission of instructor. Introduces students to spatial data and the statistical methods to appropriately analyze them. Covers spatial data visualization and manipulation, spatial point pattern analysis, interpolation and geostatistics for point-referenced data, and spatial regression modeling of areal data. Includes the use of a statistical software package for data analysis.