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Spatial Data Analysis
Theory and Practice
Spatial Data Analysis: Theory and Practice provides a broad-ranging
treatment of the field of spatial data analysis. It begins with an
overview of spatial data analysis and the importance of location
(place, context and space) in scientific and policy-related
research. Covering fundamental problems concerning how
attributes in geographical space are represented to the latest
methods of exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial
modelling, it is designed to take the reader through the key areas
that underpin the analysis of spatial data, providing a platform
from which to view and critically appreciate many of the key
areas of the field. Parts of the text are accessible to under-
graduate and master’s level students, but it also contains
sufficient challenging material that it will be of interest to
geographers, social scientists and economists, environmental
scientists and statisticians, whose research takes them into the
area of spatial analysis.
robert haining is Professor of Human Geography at the
University of Cambridge. He has published extensively in the
field of spatial data analysis, with particular reference to
applications in the areas of economic geography, medical
geography and the geography of crime. His previous book,
Spatial Data Analysis in the Social and Environmental Sciences
(Cambridge University Press, 1993) was well received and cited
internationally.
Spatial Data
Analysis
Theory and Practice
Robert Haining
University of Cambridge
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