In recent years there has been a growing interest in and concern for the development of a sound spatial statistical body of theory. This work has been undertaken by geographers, statisticians, regional scientists, econometricians, and others (e. g. , sociologists). It has led to the publication of a number of books, including Cliff and Ord's Spatial Processes (1981), Bartlett's The Statistical Analysis of Spatial Pattern (1975), Ripley's Spatial Statistics (1981), Paelinck and Klaassen's Spatial Economet~ics (1979), Ahuja and Schachter's Pattern Models (1983), and Upton and Fingleton's Spatial Data Analysis by Example (1985). The first of these books presents a useful introduction to the topic of spatial autocorrelation, focusing on autocorrelation indices and their sampling distributions. The second of these books is quite brief, but nevertheless furnishes an eloquent introduction to the rela tionship between spatial autoregressive and two-dimensional spectral models. Ripley's book virtually ignores autoregressive and trend surface modelling, and focuses almost solely on point pattern analysis. Paelinck and Klaassen's book closely follows an econometric textbook format, and as a result overlooks much of the important material necessary for successful spatial data analy sis. It almost exclusively addresses distance and gravity models, with some treatment of autoregressive modelling. Pattern Models supplements Cliff and Ord's book, which in combination provide a good introduction to spatial data analysis. Its basic limitation is a preoccupation with the geometry of planar patterns, and hence is very narrow in scope.

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University of New York, Buffalo, USA

Daniel A. Griffith

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Book Title: Advanced Spatial Statistics
Book Subtitle: Special Topics in the Exploration of Quantitative Spatial Data Series
Authors: Daniel A. Griffith
Series Title: Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2758-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 1988
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-3627-0Published: 30 April 1988
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-7739-2Published: 20 September 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2758-2Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1570-5811
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7977
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 274
Topics: Econometrics

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