Models of Spatial Processes: An Approach to the Study of Point, Line and Area Patterns

by Arthur Getis, Barry Boots

Overview

This book approaches the study of patterns by emphasising the processes responsible for them; it emphasises the logical format of process-to-pattern rather than the more wasteful pattern-to-process approach. The concern is primarily with two-dimensional surfaces, which is the way most maps are used for analysis. The material is organised into sections on process models responsible for point patterns, for line patterns and then for area patterns. It represents a synthesis of the work done on patterns in a number of fields and a large literature is reviewed in the process of the synthesis. In many respects this book represents a translation of complex mathematical materials into a readable and relatively simple verbal approach to the subject and thus brings the more sophisticated aspects to a larger number of students than has been done before. The reader need only have an elementary background in statistics. The basic probability theory required by the text is given in an appendix.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521103541
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/11/2008
Series:	Cambridge Geographical Studies , #8
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

1. An Introduction to spatial processes; 2. Point patterns: Poisson process model; 3. Point patterns: mixed Poisson process models; 4. Truly contagious models, disturbed lattices and information theory; 5. Line patterns; 6. Area patterns: the cell model; 7. Area patterns: the Johnson-Mehl model; 8. Area patterns: clumping models.