Geog 414/514 Advanced Geographic Data Analysis
Spring 2008

Lecture and exam schedule

Date

Lecture

Topic -- See individual pages for readings

Exercises & Exams (out) due

4-1 (Tu)

1

Intro, data analysis and visualization in R 1 Getting and using R  

4-3 (Th)

2

Univariate plots 2 Univariate plots  

4-8 (Tu)

3

Bivariate plots   1

4-10 (Th)

4

Descriptive statistics 3 Bivariate plots and desc. stats  

4-15 (Tu)

5

Maps in R examples: [Part1] [Part 2]   2

4-17 (Th)

6

Multivariate plots examples: [Part1] [Part 2] 4 Multivariate plots  

4-22 (Tu)

7

Descriptive plots and statistics for spatial data   3

4-24 (Th)

8

Spatial neighbors and spatial autocorrelation 5 Spatial plots and stats  

4-29 (Tu)

9

Reference distributions Exam 1 -- due 5-8  

5-1 (Th)

10

Statistical inference   4

5-6 (Tu)

11

Analysis of variance 6 CI's, t-tests, ANOVA  

5-8 (Th)

12

Regression analysis   5

5-13 (Tu)

13

More regression analysis 7 Regression analysis  

5-15 (Th)

14

Nonparametric regression    

5-20 (Tu)

15

GLMs, GAMs, and CARTs   6

5-22 (Th)

16

Interpolation and contouring    

5-27 (Tu)

17

Principal components analysis and factor analysis 8 Multivariate analysis  

5-29 (Th)

18

MANOVA, discriminant analysis   7

6-3 (Tu)

19

Mutivariate distances and cluster analysis Exam 2 -- due 6-11  

6-5 (Th)

20

High-resolution and high-dimension data sets    
6-11 (W)

 

Exam day   8

 

 

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