Session I
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This 1.5h session introduces the course by:
- Presenting spatial data and its different manifestations
- Motivating spatial analysis
- Introducing the concept of spatial dependence and spatial autocorrelation
- Stressing the differences between spatial dependence and spatial
heterogeneity
- Goodchild, M. F.; Longley, P. A. (2013). The Practice of Geographic Information Science. In Fischer, M. M. and Nijkamp, P., editors, Handbook of Regional Science. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg