Stat 5810, Section 001 - Applied Spatial Statistics (Fall 2000)

Instructor:
Dr. Jürgen Symanzik
Office: Lund 325
Phone: 797-0696
e-mail: symanzik@sunfs.math.usu.edu
http://www.math.usu.edu/~symanzik/

Welcome to the Stat 5810 Webpage. This page contains news and additional information regarding this class that becomes available during the semester. It is updated whenever new dates, times, or other information become available.

And here are the news:

1) Stat 5810 Advertisement. (4/24/2000)
2) Stat 5810 Syllabus. (8/28/2000)
3) To become familiar with Statistics again, an old Stat 3000 final exam has been assigned as Homework Assignment 1 for Stat 5810. (8/28/2000)
4) The schedule for the 2nd week of class (Labor Day Week) is as follows:
Lecture: Wednesday 9/6/2000, 5pm - 7pm, in Business 218.
Lab: No lab this week.
Office Hours: Tuesday 9/5/2000, 10:45am - 12:00noon.
(8/31/2000)
5) As of week 3 of class, our regular schedule will be as follows:
Lecture: Monday, 4:30pm - 6:30pm, in Geology 308.
Lab: Wednesday, 5pm - 6pm, B-NR 208.
Office Hours: MWF, 10am - 11am. Other times by appointment.
(8/31/2000)
6) It is a bit late to post this - but for completeness, here is Homework Assignment 2. (9/13/2000)
7) Here is the Introduction to S and S-Plus that will be used on Wed 9/13/00 & Mon 9/18/00 (please recall that we will be in B-NR 208 from 5:30-6:30pm on 9/18/00 while the first part of that lecture from 4:30-5:20pm will be in our regular classroom). (9/13/2000)
8) Some of our textbooks and S-Plus manuals are now available on reserve at the library. Eventually, there will be 10 books related to Stat 5810 on reserve. Check
http://sun5.lib.usu.edu/cgi-bin/eres/viewcourse.pl?STAT0000_STATISTICS
to see what is currently available. The password is "sta0000".

Also note that the textbook (Hayter) and student solutions for Stat 3000 are also on reserve. This should allow you to make up some deficits of your undergraduate statistics education. (9/18/2000)
9) Homework Assignment 3. (9/18/2000)
10) Here are my answers for questions 1 through 3 of the Introduction to S and S-Plus tutorial. (9/22/2000)
11) Aaron found this interesting link to a Web-based S-Plus help system. You may want to take a closer look at it. (9/26/2000)
12) Here is the Introduction to S+SpatialStats (so far only for the analysis of spatial point patterns). (9/27/2000)
13) Homework Assignment 4. (9/27/2000)
14) Note that Homework Assignment 4 is not due this week. It has been extended until later this month, probably week 3 or week 4 in October. No final due date has been set yet. (10/6/2000)
15) Here are a few links to S-Plus Tutorials on the Web. Decide yourself which are most useful for your needs. Note that some of these tutorials are already a few years old, and, therefore, may not totally reflect the current functionality of S-Plus. (10/16/2000)
- Web-based S-Plus Help System (by B. Süselbeck, University of Münster, Germany).
- Notes on S-PLUS: A Programming Environment for Data Analysis and Graphics (by W. Venables, University of Adelaide, Australia).
- Introduction to Splus 5 (by B. S. Rowlingson, Lancaster University, UK).
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, S-Plus Tutorial (by A. Dupuis, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
- S-Plus Tutorial (Update of Dupuis Version) (by P. Dirschedl, University of Munich, Germany).
- MSU Math Department S-Plus Tutorial (by J. Robison-Cox, Montana State University).
16) Here is the description of what we are going to solve jointly during todays (10/9/00) lecture. And here is the volcanic craters data set (from Uganda) we have used in some of our classroom lectures and the tasks you have to perform with this data set. (10/9/2000)
17) Homework Assignment 5. (10/11/2000)
18) Sorry, I had problems to access the spatial module since Friday night. Therefore, only the remaining questions from Assignment 4 but no additional questions for the next homework assignment: Homework Assignment 6. (10/21/2000)
19) These are the solutions we discussed in class for point 16) above: Function Development Solution and Volcanic Crater Solution (10/21/2000)
20) Today, we tried to reproduce the results for the pines data that is featured in Ripley (1981), page 172-175, and Venables/Ripley (1997), page 482-484. Here is the Pines Task Description and here is the full solution Pines Solution. If you missed this lecture, use the listed references and try to complete the tasks before looking at the full solution. (10/23/2000)
21) It is time to get started with XGobi and ArcView/XGobi/XploRe now. Main Web pages are listed below. (10/25/2000)
- Short XGobi Info
- XGobi Home Page
- XGobi Book (Draft Version)
- XGobi Tutorial
22) Since the main server is down and S-Plus has been inaccessible since Firday night, the due date for Homework 6 has been extended until Friday 11/3/2000. Ed hopes to have things back up again late this day - so check S-Plus sometime tomorrow. Please let me know if it still is not working on Tuesday. (10/30/2000)
23) Project 1. (11/6/2000)
24) We continue with XGobi and ArcView/XGobi/XploRe now. Main Web pages are listed below. (11/6/2000)
- Short XGobi and ArcView/XGobi/XploRe Info
- ArcView/XGobi/XploRe Overview
- The ArcView 3.1 - XGobi - XploRe Environment Version 2.000 (2000)
25) Homework Assignment 7. (11/14/2000)
26) Here is the Introduction to S+SpatialStats (2) (for the analysis of spatially continuous data). (11/15/2000)
27) Here are the presentations of Project 1 from Group 1 and Group 2.

After the semester, the data may no longer be available in the files referenced within these 2 documents. However, if you have an account on USU's NR computers, you may still find the data in my account /home/symanzik/splus.

If this account is also not accessible for you, you can directly load the data files and store them in a directory that is accessible for you (and then load them into Splus using the appropriate path).

Files for Group 1: blackdata, whitedata, whitepts, blackpts.dat, alldata.
Files for Group 2: Larnyxy.txt, LungCancer.txt.
(11/20/2000)
28) Project 2. (11/27/2000)
29) Here is the Introduction to S+SpatialStats (3) (for the analysis of area data). (11/29/2000)
30) Here are the S-Plus solutions to Homework Assignments #3, #4 (Part I), #4 (Part II), #5, #7. Feel free to use whatever you need from the S-plus code. The resulting graphics will not be posted. Please check your printed solution for the graphics if you already turned in the corresponding homework. (12/6/2000)
31) Here is the final (typed) version of our lecture notes as postscript and as pdf file. (1/19/2001)
32) Here is the final and my solutions. (1/26/2001)
33) When we talked about micromaps in class, I could only cite research articles. In fact, micromaps are now used on an official government Web site operated by USDA-NASS. Start at http://www.nass.usda.gov/research/sumpant.htm, then click on any of the green/blue circles. (2/5/2001)

Last Update February 5, 2001.