Overview

This is the first book to provide sociologists, criminologists, political scientists, and other social scientists with the methodological logic and techniques for doing spatial analysis in their chosen fields of inquiry. The book contains a wealth of examples as to why these techniques are worth doing, over and above conventional statistical techniques using SPSS or other statistical packages. GIS is a methodological and conceptual approach that allows for the linking together of spatial data, or data that is based on a physical space, with non-spatial data, which can be thought of as any data that contains no direct reference to physical locations.

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Author:   Robert Nash Parker (University of California, Riverside, USA) ,  Emily K. Asencio (University of California, Riverside, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 21.90cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 27.60cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780415989626

ISBN 10:   0415989620
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   10 July 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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This is a first-rate book on GIS and spatial analysis. The authors adopt a learn-by-doing approach and make it work by combining lucid explanations of concepts and procedures with rich examples. The book will be a valuable resource to students, teachers, and researchers interested in understanding the spatial dimension of social life. --Steven F. Messner, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, SUNY This book is an excellent introduction to the latest tools and techniques for using spatial analyses to study behavior. It is written in a clear and step-by-step fashion with ample illustrations and enables the reader to quickly engage the complex tools of GIS including details concerning appropriate statistical analyses which go well beyond plotting data on maps. --Harold D. Holder, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Prevention Research

"""This is a first-rate book on GIS and spatial analysis. The authors adopt a ""learn-by-doing"" approach and make it work by combining lucid explanations of concepts and procedures with rich examples. The book will be a valuable resource to students, teachers, and researchers interested in understanding the spatial dimension of social life."" --Steven F. Messner, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, SUNY ""This book is an excellent introduction to the latest tools and techniques for using spatial analyses to study behavior. It is written in a clear and step-by-step fashion with ample illustrations and enables the reader to quickly engage the complex tools of GIS including details concerning appropriate statistical analyses which go well beyond plotting data on maps."" --Harold D. Holder, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Prevention Research"

This is a first-rate book on GIS and spatial analysis. The authors adopt a learn-by-doing approach and make it work by combining lucid explanations of concepts and procedures with rich examples. The book will be a valuable resource to students, teachers, and researchers interested in understanding the spatial dimension of social life. -Steven F. Messner, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, SUNY This book is an excellent introduction to the latest tools and techniques for using spatial analyses to study behavior. It is written in a clear and step-by-step fashion with ample illustrations and enables the reader to quickly engage the complex tools of GIS including details concerning appropriate statistical analyses which go well beyond plotting data on maps. -Harold D. Holder, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Prevention Research

Author Information

Robert Nash Parker (Ph.D., Duke University) is Co-Director of the Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies at University of California, Riverside. He has long been interested in the useful application of methods originally pioneered outside of the social sciences (i.e. Structural Equation Modeling (psychology), HLM (education), logistic regression (Economics), ridge regression (chemistry) to the social sciences. Emily Asencio (Ph.D., University of California, Riverside) is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Academic Center for Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention at the University of California, Riverside.

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