[R-sig-Geo] One-day course on spatial and spatio-temporal modelling with R

[Virgilio Gomez Rubio]

Dear R users,

Please, see below information about a course on spatial and spatio-temporal 
modelling with R that we are organising in London.

Best wishes,

Virgilio

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One-day introductory course on spatial and spatio-temporal modelling
with R

Faculty of Medicine
St. Mary's Campus
Imperial College London

9:00-17:00, 16th May 2014


* Course outline:

This one-day introductory course is aimed at researchers that have to
deal with the analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal data. The course
will tackle the problem of analysing spatio-temporal data with the R
programming language. Different types of spatial data will be covered,
such as point patterns, lattice data and data coming from irregular
measurements of continuos processes (geostatistics). In addition,
different worked examples will be presented showing how to proceed with
the analysis of a wide range of spatial data sets.

The topics of the course will contain an introduction to various R
packages for the analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal data data. This
includes data import/export, data management and visualisation, and how
to fit a broad range of models for spatial data. The worked examples
will focus on particular real data sets from Epidemiology, Environmental
Sciences, Ecology, Economics and others.

Although most of the lectures will include live demonstrations of the
software, a working knowledge of the R software is desirable to follow
the examples. R is distributed as free software, and it can be
downloaded from http://cran.r-project.org . Similarly, the course will
introduce the statistical concepts behind the analysis, but a basic
knowledge of statistics and regression analysis will be necessary.

The course will make particular emphasis on Bayesian inference for
spatial and spatio-temporal modelling. Hence, examples based on packages
R-INLA, BayesX and WinBUGS will be included. We will also discuss the
main differences among these and other packages for spatio-temporal
modelling.


*) Instructor:

Dr. Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha


*) Organisers:

Dr. Marta Blangiardo (Imperial College London)
Dr. Virgilio Gómez-Rubio (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)


*) Booking and course fees:

Fees for the course are as follows:

- £60 Students
- £80 Academics
- £160 Others (companies, government related agencies, etc.)

Registration for the course can be done on-line at

http://www5.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/coursebookings/rmodelling_0514.html


Updated information can be found here:

http://www.uclm.es/profesorado/vgomez/SSTMR/