STATS 701 Special Topic in Statistics 1

Below description edited in year: 2010

Prereqs: STAT 210 and one of STAT 320 or STAT 325

Credit: Final exam = 50%, test = 25%, assignments = 25%

Textbooks: Analysing Spatial Point Patterns in R, Adrian Baddeley, CSIRO Technical Report 2008,
URL: http//www.csiro.au/resources/Spatial-Point-Patterns-in-R.html

Taught: First Semester City

Website: STATS 701 website

This course will investigate models for data consisting of points randomly distributed in space. The distribution is a realisation of a spatial point process. We will cover both the theory and the analysis of such spatial data, using the spatsat package in R.

Lecturer: Dr Rolf Turner, Starpath project, School of Education

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