The ESRI Guide To GIS Analysis

In The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1, author Andy Mitchell showed how the creation and visual study of maps could be used to analyze spatial relationships between things that happen or exist in the world and their relative locations. But when the phenomena under study become complex, and the datasets huge, visual analysis alone tells only part of the story.

Andy Mitchell is a technical writer with more than 20 years experience in GIS. He is the author of The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 1: Geographic Patterns and Relationships and Zeroing In and the coauthor of Getting Started with ArcGIS. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introducing Spatial Measurements and Statistics	p. 1
What are spatial measurements and statistics?	p. 2
Geographic analysis with statistics	p. 6
Understanding data distributions	p. 13
Measuring Geographic Distributions	p. 21
Why measure geographic distributions?	p. 22
Finding the center	p. 26
Measuring the compactness of the distribution	p. 39
Measuring orientation and direction	p. 45
References and further reading	p. 61
Testing statistical significance	p. 63
Identifying Patterns	p. 71
Why identify geographic patterns?	p. 72
Using statistics to identify patterns	p. 75
Measuring the pattern of feature locations	p. 80
Measuring the spatial pattern of feature values	p. 104
References and further reading	p. 133
Defining spatial neighborhoods and weights	p. 135
Identifying Clusters	p. 147
Why identify spatial clusters?	p. 148
Using statistics to identify clusters	p. 149
Finding clusters of features	p. 152
Finding clusters of similar values	p. 163
References and further reading	p. 181
Using statistics with geographic data	p. 183
Analyzing Geographic Relationships	p. 191
Why analyze geographic relationships?	p. 192
Using statistics to analyze relationships	p. 196
Identifying geographic relationships	p. 203
Analyzing geographic processes	p. 210
References and further reading	p. 227
Data credits	p. 229
Software credits	p. 231
Index	p. 235
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