Lecture Notes

Recommended Texts

  • Wikle C., Zammit-Mangion A., Cressie N. 2019. Spatio-temporal statistics with R. Chapman & Hall/CRC. [book website] [pdf]

    • Main text for this class.

  • Cressie, N., Wikle, C. 2011. Statistics for Spatio-temporal Data. [link]

    • First book fully dedicated to spatio-temporal statistics. This book is a classic in the field, but a bit more technical than Wikle et al. (2019) and doesn't contain worked examples.

  • Cressie, N. 1993. Statistics for Spatial Data (Revised edition). [link]

    • This is a big book and a classic in the field of spatial statistics. As correctly noted by the author: "This [1990] may be the last time spatial Statistics will be squeezed between two covers."

  • Hooten, M., Hefley. T. Bringing Bayesian Models to Life. [link]

    • This book shows how to build a wide variety of Bayesian models from scratch. Contains many worked examples in R.

  • Hooten, M. Johnson, D., McClintock, B., Morales B. Animal Movement: Statistical Models for Telemetry Data. [link]

    • This is a fantastic book about modeling position data and trajectories of animals.

  • Banerjee, S., Carlin, B., Gelfand, A. 2014. Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for Spatial Data. [link]

    • Great reference for Bayesian Hierarchical modeling of spatial data. Contains worked examples using WinBUGS.

Supplementary Text

  • Xie Y., Allaire J., Grolemund G. (2018) R Markdown: the definitive guide. CRC Press [bookdown] [pdf]

  • Perpiñán, O. (2018) Displaying time series, spatial, and spatio-temporal data with R. (second edition). CRC Press. [link]

    • This is a comprehensive and recently updated text that will save you a lot of time when trying to make nice plots.

  • Fieller, N. (2015) Basics of Matrix Algebra for Statistics with R. Chapman and Hall/CRC [link]

    • Concise introduction accessible to all students.

  • Banerjee, S. and Roy, A (2015) Linear Algebra and Matrix Analysis for Statistics. Chapman and Hall/CRC [link]

    • Complete reference for statistics graduate students.

  • Gelman A. et al. 2013. Bayesian data analysis. Third edition. [pdf]

Recommended Software

  • R Core Team (2020) R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing [link]

  • RStudio (2020) RStudio: Integrated Development for R. RStudio, Inc. [link]

  • MiKTex [link] (for Windows) MacTex (for OS X) [link]