During the past twenty years spatial statistics has experienced important developments and has been applied in many fields of science. In view of these facts, spatial statistics was an important topic during the theme year on statistics at the CRM in 1997-98. This volume contains 13 papers based on presentations by eminent researchers at four workshops during that year: Statistical Inference for Spatial Processes; Image Analysis; Applications of Spatial Statistics in Earth, Environmental, and Health Sciences; and Statistics of Brain Mapping. These papers range from asymptotic considerations for spatial processes to practical considerations related to particular applications including important methodological aspects. Many contributions concern image analysis, mainly images related to brain mapping.
Author(s): Jun Zhu, S. N. Lahiri, Noel Cressie (auth.), Marc Moore (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Statistics 159
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 308
Tags: Statistical Theory and Methods
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Asymptotic Distribution of the Empirical Cumulative Distribution Function Predictor under Nonstationarity....Pages 1-20
Robustness Problems in the Analysis of Spatial Data....Pages 21-37
Standards Adoption Dynamics and Test for Nonspatial Coordination....Pages 39-56
Random Fields on Z d , Limit Theorems and Irregular Sets....Pages 57-82
Multiscale Graphical Modeling in Space: Applications to Command and Control....Pages 83-113
Unsupervised Image Segmentation Using a Telegraph Parameterization of Pickard Random Field....Pages 115-140
Estimation of Motion from Sequences of Images....Pages 141-167
Applications of Random Fields in Human Brain Mapping....Pages 169-182
In Praise of Tedious Permutation....Pages 183-200
Group Analysis of Individual Activation Maps Using 3D Scale-Space Primal Sketches and a Markovian Random Field....Pages 201-212
Some Statistical Aspects of Magnetoencephalography....Pages 213-245
Statistics of Nonlinear Spatial Distortions in Histological Images....Pages 247-262
Statistical Analysis of Brain Maps: Some Lessons from Morphometrics....Pages 263-282
Back Matter....Pages 283-284