The Spatial Statistics Society

Spatial Statistics is the area of Statistics that focuses on analyzing and understanding spatial and spatio-temporal data, by modelling and predicting it. Spatial Statistics plays a role in many domains dealing with spatial data, as well as in interdisciplinary research, in particular where uncertainty plays a role.

The Spatial Statistics Society is currently an informal and open society, initiated by a group of people that has in the past organized three conferences and set up a journal. Elsevier publishes the journal, and has carried out the technical organization of the conferences. The goal of the society is to provide a communication platform for those who apply, develop or benefit from Spatial Statistics.

During the second Spatial Statistics Conference, an ad-hoc steering group was formed to organize this initiative. It currently consists of the following members:

• Alfred Stein (editor-in-chief of the journal)

• Peter Atkinson (conference committee and local host, fourth Spatial Statistics Conference)

• Denis Allard (conference committee and local host, third Spatial Statistics Conference)

• Kate Calder (conference committee and local host, second Spatial Statistics Conference)

• Renato Assunção

• Edzer Pebesma (web site, initiator)