For advanced stuff R is the thing. But you could download GeoDA (https://www.geoda.uiuc.edu/) and play. Then look over Dr. Bivand's pages at: http://sal.uiuc.edu/csiss/Rgeo/. This is how I started (I am still a beginner though :-)).

hth,
 
Mihai Nica



----- Original Message ----
From: Jeffrey Stratford <stratja@auburn.edu>
To: r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 2:06:39 PM
Subject: [R-sig-Geo] incorporating spatial autocorrelation (getting started)

Hi.  I would like to incorporate spatial autocorreation into some
ecological models and I'm overwhelmed by the number of programs out
there and I would appreciate some advice where I can get started (and
maybe finish!).

The study: I surveyed birds along roads every 0.8 km and each point was
georeferenced.  I clipped buffers from satellite imagery to quantify the
proportion of cover around each point (radii of buffers = 90, 210, 990
m).  I submitted a paper where I linked the number of species at a point
to land use variables but this manuscript was rejected because I did not
incorporate spatial autocorrelation.  I'm unfamiliar with spatial
statistics so I'll be reading Cressie and others but I would like to
start tinkering with the data and methods. 

Many thanks,

Jeff



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