Statistics 575

Statistical Methods for Spatial Data

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Jun Zhu is the professor for Statistics 575 in Fall 2008.


Course Information

Announcement


Lecture Notes

Lecture #PagesTopicPDF Notes
[slides per page]
First 1/3 1-17
18-27
28-39
40-52
53-66
67-71
72-94
95-108
109-116
Introduction; Types of Spatial Data
Modeling Randomness by Uniform
Modeling Randomness by Poisson
Modeling Clustering and Regular Patterns
Testing CSR via Subsampling
Testing CSR via d_1 Distance
Ghat and Fhat
Khat, Lhat, and Cross Khat
T-Square Sampling
[1],[2],[4]
Middle 1/3 117-125
126-134
135-139
140-153
154-172
173-187
188-196
197-199
BW Test
Generalization of BW
Spatial Linear Model
Review of Matrix Algebra
SAR, CAR and MA
Model Fitting
LRT
Modeling Guidelines
[1],[2],[4]
Last 1/3 200-201
202-211
212-225
226-232
233-259
260-273
274-276
277-292
293-307
308-333
334-340
341-348
Introduction
Theoretical Variograms
Variogram Estimation
Variogram Models
Variogram Model Fitting
Anisotropic Variograms
Spatial Prediction and Kriging
Ordinary Kriging
Universal Kriging
Universal Kriging nlme
Geostatistical Modeling Strategies
Time Series
[1],[2],[4]
Last 1-2 weeks Project presentations


Homework Assignments

Assignments are due by 4:00 P.M. on the date due. With prior permission from your professor, you may turn in homework on the following Monday without penalty. Late homework received before solutions are posted will receive at most half credit. Homework received after solutions are posted will receive no credit.

AssignmentDate GivenDate DueDataSolutions
Assignment #1 [PDF] September 4 September 12 N/A


Office Hours

PersonHoursLocationPhoneE-Mail
Chia-Chieh Lin Wednesday 2-2:45
Friday 11-11:45
MSC 1250262-3230linc at stat.wisc.edu
Jun Zhu Tuesday 3:45-4:30pm
Thursday 3:45-4:30pm
MSC 1214263-3615jzhu at stat.wisc.edu


Current Exam Information

Old Exams and Solutions

YearMidterm In-class
Exam
Midterm Take-home
Exam
Midterm
Solutions
Final In-class
Exam
Final In-class
Handouts
Final Take-home
Exam
Final Take-home
Solutions
Data
2001 [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] [elev.dat], [veg.dat]
2002 [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] N/A [PDF] [PDF] [pine.dat], [wnv.dat], [yield-02.dat]
2003 [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] N/A [PDF] N/A N/A
2004 [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] [cedar-04.txt], [deer-04.txt], [deer-04.R]
2006 [PDF] [PDF] [PDF] [bac-06.dat], [rcg-06.dat]


Introduction to R

Statistics 575: [PDF]

R In-Class Demo Notes


Other links and documents

Statistics 571: [Webpage]

R Appendices to the Course Notes

R: [Webpage]
Last modified: August 25, 2008

Jun Zhu, jzhu at stat.wisc.edu