TY - JOUR
AU - Wu, Changshan
AB -  Handbook of Applied Spatial Analysis: Software Tools, Methods and Applications , edited by Manfred M. Fischer and Arthur Getis . 2010 . Berlin and Heidelberg : Springer . 811 + xv. ISBN 978‐3‐642‐03646‐0, $269 . Spatial data are widely used in many disciplines, including economics, environmental sciences, health sciences, anthropology, sociology, and political science, as well as in the traditional fields of geography and regional science. However, spatial data require distinct analytical techniques due to their special characteristics. They contain abundant locational information such as distance, adjacency, interaction, and neighborhood, but analysis encounters a number of difficulties, including spatial dependency, heterogeneity, nonstationarity, scale differences, modifiable areal units, etc. Observers in many fields have expressed concern about the lack of understanding of appropriate spatial analysis techniques, and consequently tremendous research efforts have been made to develop methods and apply them in solving real‐world problems. Manfred Fischer and Arthur Getis’s edited Handbook is a systematic and comprehensive review of those research efforts. Although it is not intended to serve as a college textbook, it provides a comprehensive introduction to a variety of problems and methods that may be beneficial to students and researchers who intend to learn and apply spatial 
TI - Handbook of Applied Spatial Analysis: Software Tools, Methods and Applications edited by Manfred M. Fischer and Arthur Getis
JF - Journal of Regional Science
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2012.00768_8.x
DA - 2012-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/handbook-of-applied-spatial-analysis-software-tools-methods-and-8P98cnHyhR
SP - 386
VL - 52
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -