Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) - Hardcover

"It is a wonderful place to begin studying spatio-temporal processes." (Mathematical Reviews Clippings, 1 January 2013) "Overall, I believe this academic monograph would be an excellent reference book for researchers and graduate students who are interested in a systematic and indepth understanding of statistical approaches to spatio-temporal data analysis and modeling." (Journal of the American Statistical Association, 15 March 2013) "Better than any other reference now available, Cressie and Wikle bridge the gap between applied science and modern inference. This book is a must for any environmental scientist or engineer engaged in modeling and computation." - James S. Clark, H.L. Blomquist Professor of Environment, Duke University "The future lies at the intersection of a question in science or engineering, a process-based model intended to elucidate the question, and the statistical analysis of data to give us an idea of whether or not the model has done the job. This is what I call 'modeling the process, not just the data.' Cressie and Wikle have provided a guidebook that will broadly appeal to the scientific community - from statistical neophytes to experts - and which will stand the test of time." - Marc Mangel, Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, University of California Santa Cruz "This book, written by two of the world's leading experts on modeling environmental spatio-temporal processes, is a worthy successor to Cressie's earlier classic on spatial statistics. Particularly noteable is its extensive coverage not found in any other book in statistical science, of hierarchical dynamic process modeling, a new frontier at the interface between the physical and statistical sciences. It takes us there with a most-justified excursion into the world of methods such as the extended Kalman filter, sequential importance sampling, and INLA, that address the computational issues confronted at that frontier. This comprehensive, very readable treatment of hot areas of modern research and applications, is written with great clarity and insight. That and its coverage of a broad range of applications, will make it an essential and long-lived reference for statistical as well as non-statistical scientists alike." - Jim Zidek, Professor Emeritus and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, University of British Columbia "This book is by far the most comprehensive treatment available on the statistics of spatio-temporal processes and will surely become a standard reference in the field. After extensive surveys of time series analysis and traditional spatial statistics, the authors develop spatio-temporal analysis through a series of chapters covering empirical and exploratory methods, followed by probability models for spatio-temporal processes, and then three chapters on the hierarchical dynamical approach which has been at the core of their own contributions since the late 1990s. Throughout the book, they develop the methods through detailed descriptions of computational algorithms, leading up to a final chapter that discusses in-depth applications to predicting sea-surface temperatures and wind speeds, remote-sensing measures of atmospheric particles, and bird migration. Every researcher involved in the analysis of large-scale environmental datasets should own a copy of this book." - Richard L. Smith, Distinguished Professor of Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Director, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI)

Winner of the 2013 DeGroot Prize. A state-of-the-art presentation of spatio-temporal processes, bridging classic ideas with modern hierarchical statistical modeling concepts and the latest computational methods Noel Cressie and Christopher K. Wikle, are also winners of the 2011 PROSE Award in the Mathematics category, for the book "Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data" (2011), published by John Wiley and Sons. (The PROSE awards, for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, are given by the Association of American Publishers, the national trade association of the US book publishing industry.) Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data has now been reprinted with small corrections to the text and the bibliography. The overall content and pagination of the new printing remains the same; the difference comes in the form of corrections to typographical errors, editing of incomplete and missing references, and some updated spatio-temporal interpretations. From understanding environmental processes and climate trends to developing new technologies for mapping public-health data and the spread of invasive-species, there is a high demand for statistical analyses of data that take spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal information into account. Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data presents a systematic approach to key quantitative techniques that incorporate the latest advances in statistical computing as well as hierarchical, particularly Bayesian, statistical modeling, with an emphasis on dynamical spatio-temporal models. Cressie and Wikle supply a unique presentation that incorporates ideas from the areas of time series and spatial statistics as well as stochastic processes. Beginning with separate treatments of temporal data and spatial data, the book combines these concepts to discuss spatio-temporal statistical methods for understanding complex processes. Topics of coverage include: * Exploratory methods for spatio-temporal data, including visualization, spectral analysis, empirical orthogonal function analysis, and LISAs * Spatio-temporal covariance functions, spatio-temporal kriging, and time series of spatial processes * Development of hierarchical dynamical spatio-temporal models (DSTMs), with discussion of linear and nonlinear DSTMs and computational algorithms for their implementation * Quantifying and exploring spatio-temporal variability in scientific applications, including case studies based on real-world environmental data Throughout the book, interesting applications demonstrate the relevance of the presented concepts. Vivid, full-color graphics emphasize the visual nature of the topic, and a related FTP site contains supplementary material. Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data is an excellent book for a graduate-level course on spatio-temporal statistics. It is also a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners in the fields of applied mathematics, engineering, and the environmental and health sciences.