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Spatial Statistical Methods
Statistics plays an important role in describing the sample data and exploring
the behavior of population behavior from sample data. The traditional statis-
tical methods have been developed keeping in view describing the behavior of
univariate data sample. To incorporate the behavior of spatial data and geo-
metric data which are inherently univariate or multivariate in nature, a set of
tools has been developed under the aegis of spatial statistics or geostatistics.
In this chapter we discuss the spatial statistical methods and their usage. The
standard statistical tools useful for describing the behavior of univariate ...