Geog 4/517 Geographic Data Analysis
Spring 2009

Lecture and exam schedule

Date

Lecture

Topic -- See individual pages for readings

Exercises & Exams (out) due

3-30 (M)

1

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

4-1 (W)

2

Univariate plots 2 Univariate plots  

4-6 (M)

3

Bivariate plots   1

4-8 (W)

4

Descriptive statistics 3 Bivariate plots and desc. stats  

4-13 (M)

5

Maps in R examples   2

4-15 (W)

6

Multivariate plots examples 4 Multivariate plots  

4-20 (M)

7

Descriptive plots and statistics for spatial data   3

4-22 (W)

8

Spatial neighbors and spatial autocorrelation 5 Spatial plots and stats  

4-27 (M)

9

Reference distributions Exam 1 -- due 5-4 4

4-29 (W)

10

Statistical inference    

5-4 (M)

11

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

5-6 (W)

12

Regression analysis    

5-11 (M)

13

More regression analysis 7 Regression analysis 5

5-13 (W)

14

Nonparametric regression    

5-18 (M)

15

GLMs, GAMs, and CARTs   6

5-20 (W)

16

Principal components analysis and factor analysis 8 Multivariate analysis  

5-27 (W)

17

MANOVA, discriminant analysis    

6-1 (M)

18

Mutivariate distances and cluster analysis Exam 2 -- due 6-12 7

6-3 (W)

19

High-resolution and high-dimension data sets    
6-12 (F)

 

Exam day   8

 

 

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