Schedule for GEOG 4023/5023, Spring 2008

Week Date Lecture Core Reading Examples Optional Lab Exercise
  15 Jan Introduction     Fotheringham Ch 1 & 2 No lab
1 17 Descriptive Statistics Rogerson Ch 1, 2
             
22 ESDA Fotheringham Ch 4 1. Intro to Stata
2 24 Geographic Sampling Clark & Hosking Ch 5 Kumar 2007 Anselin 1989
             
29 Inferential Statistics Rogerson Ch 4, 5 McCloskey & Ziliak 1996 2. Intro to GeoDa
3 31 Inferential Statistics 2 Hubbard & Armstrong 2005
             
5 Feb Bivariate Regression Rogerson Ch 7, 8, 9 3. Confidence Intervals
4 7 Mulitple Regression Hepple 1998 Hamilton Ch 2,3
             
12 Regression Diagnostics B&G Ch 1 Poon 2003 4. Regression in Stata
5 14 Spatial Autocorrelation Gould 1970 O'Loughlin 2002 Hamilton Ch 4
             
19 Regression Models Incorporating B&G Ch 7.4-7.5 Loftin & Ward 1983 Fotheringham pp162-71 5. Measuring Spatial Autocorr.
6 21      Spatial Dependencies Rogerson Ch 11 Dark 2004 Florax 2003
             
26 Geograhically Weighted Regression Fotheringham pp107-27 Bitter et al. 2007 Fotheringham Ch 5 6. Regression in GeoDa
7 28
             
4 Mar Review Lab 6 due
8 6 No class, work on exam 1
             
11 Point Pattern Analysis B&G Ch 3, 4.4 Gatrell et al. 1995 Fotheringham Ch 6 7. GWR
9 13 Point Pattern Analysis Rogerson Ch 10
             
18 Spatial Interpolation Burrough & McDonnell Ch5 & Ch6 Fotheringham pp171-78 8. Point Patterns
10 20 Geostatistics B&G Ch 5 Mitas & Mitasova 1999
             
25 Spring Break
11 27 No Classes
             
1 Apr Principal Components Analysis B&G Ch 6.3-6.3.2 9. Variograms & Kriging
12 3 Cluster Analysis Rogerson Ch 12 Hemmasi & Prorok 2002
             
8 Logistic Regression Hamilton Ch 7 Myers et al. 1997 PCA / work on projects
13 10 ANOVA Rogerson Ch 6
             
15 Dan & Liam & finish ANOVA B&G Ch 9 Work on projects
14 17 No class; AAG meeting Bruno & Improta 2008
             
22 Review Work on projects
15 24 No class, work on exam 2 (due May 6, 5pm)
             
29 Final Project Presentations No lab
16 1 May        (Final paper due May 2, 5pm)