3rd Edition
Statistical Analysis of Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Point Patterns
Introduction. Preliminary Testing. Methods for Sparsely Sampled Patterns. Spatial Point Processes. Nonparametric Methods. Models. Model-Fitting Using Summary Descriptions. Model-Fitting Using Likelihood-Based Methods. Point Process Methods in Spatial Epidemiology. Spatio-Temporal Point Processes. Exploratory Analysis. Empirical Models and Methods. Mechanistic Models and Methods. References.
Biography
Peter Diggle is a Distinguished University Professor and group leader of CHICAS at Lancaster University. Dr. Diggle is also an adjunct professor of biostatistics at both Johns Hopkins University’s and Yale University’s Schools of Public Health, adjunct senior researcher in the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University, professor of epidemiology and statistics at the University of Liverpool, a trustee for Biometrika, founding co-editor and advisory board member for Biostatistics, and chair of the Strategic Skills Fellowships Panel of the Medical Research Council. His research focuses on the development and application of statistical methods to the biomedical and health sciences.
