Have you ever needed to analyze data with a spatial component? Geographic clusters of disease, crimes, animals, plants, events?Or describing the spatial variation of something, and perhaps correlating it with some other predictor? Assessing whether the geographic distribution of something departs from randomness? Location data is ubiquitous, as are maps drawn by GIS software. SkilledContinue reading “Course Spotlight: Spatial Statistics Using R”
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Mutual Attraction
Mutual attraction is a dominant force in the universe. Gravity binds the moon to the earth, the earth to the sun, the sun to the galaxy, and one galaxy to another. And yet the universe is expanding; the result is a larger universe comprised of elements that coalesce into clusters. Human history is much theContinue reading “Mutual Attraction”