spatial statistics

{{Short description|Field Of Applied Statistics}}

{{for|the academic journal|Spatial Statistics}}

Spatial statistics is a field of applied statistics dealing with spatial data.

It involves stochastic processes (random fields, point processes), sampling, smoothing and interpolation, regional (areal unit) and lattice (gridded) data, point patterns, as well as image analysis and stereology.{{cite book | last=Ripley | first=B.D. | title=Spatial Statistics | publisher=Wiley | series=Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics | year=2005 | isbn=978-0-471-72520-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BDDPTdohXeYC | access-date=2023-04-04 | page=}}{{cite book | last=van Lieshout | first=M.N.M. | title=Theory of Spatial Statistics: A Concise Introduction | publisher=CRC Press | series=Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science | year=2019 | isbn=978-0-429-62867-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WPaODwAAQBAJ | access-date=2023-04-04 | page=}}{{cite book | last=Cressie | first=N. | title=Statistics for Spatial Data | publisher=Wiley | series=Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics | year=2015 | isbn=978-1-119-11518-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MzN_BwAAQBAJ | access-date=2023-04-04 | page=}}{{cite book | last1=Gelfand | first1=A.E. | last2=Diggle | first2=P. | last3=Guttorp | first3=P. | last4=Fuentes | first4=M. | title=Handbook of Spatial Statistics | publisher=CRC Press | series=Chapman & Hall/CRC Handbooks of Modern Statistical Methods | year=2010 | isbn=978-1-4200-7288-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xf4leslPDzsC | access-date=2023-04-04 | page=}}