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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,

) was well received and cited

internationally.

1993

Spatial Data

Analysis

Theory and Practice

RobertHaining

University of Cambridge