Tutorials

SpaceStat offers several tutorials to help new users acquaint themselves with the software.   

• Importing data into SpaceStat

• Interactive data exploration and animation using colon cancer mortality data for the southeastern United States.

• The small numbers problem. SpaceStat provides two possible approaches to dealing with small denominators in rate calculations (rate instability): masking sparse data and smoothing.

• Two tutorials (Variography and New England Kriging) have been adapted from Pierre Goovaert's short course to help new users navigate the variogram model dialog and the kriging method

The following tutorials all use housing and socioeconomic data for south east Michigan.

• Geary's C Tutorial

• Principal Component Analysis

• Spatial Regression

By default, the tutorials are installed in a folder in the same location as the SpaceStat program - look for them under Program Files\Biomedware\SpaceStat\Tutorials.