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Workshop on Spatial Statistics
for Agricultural & Environmental Research Applications

A collaborative effort among statisticians at USDA/ARS, DOI/USFWS & DOI/USGS

March 15 & 16, 2006

USDA, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
Beltsville, Maryland

Intended audience: Researchers that want an introduction to analyses that incorporate spatial information. These will not be overly technical presentations---we are aiming for understanding concepts. The workshop is designed for researchers at USDA/ARS, USGS, and USFW.

Topics:

• Characterizing spatial dependencies
• Kriging and other techniques for geostatistical data
• Spatial count data
• Point process data
• Experimental design for spatial data
• Diagnostics
• Combining multi-scale spatial data
• Lattice designs
• Software

Presentations:

• Keynote address: Jay Ver Hoef
  
  
• Topics will be presented by faculty from various universities; USDA, USGS USFW statisticians and scientists
  
  
• Fully explained examples will be given for each topic
  
  
• Hard copies of all presentations will be collected into a workshop manual and distributed to participants