Applied Spatial Data Analysis Using R

MWF July 13 – July 24 2026, 13:30 CEST - 15:30 CEST (6:00-8:00 pm IST)

Course description
This course will introduce spatial data and R ecosystem, and describe spatial data visualization and mapping, spatial dependence and autocorrelation, point referenced spatial data and variograms, spatial interpolation and kriging, and spatial regression models. The recommended preparation includes an introductory knowledge of statistical methods and a familiarity with R.

Recommended Books
- Bivand, R. S., Pebesma, E., Gómez-Rubio, V. (2013). Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R. Springer.
- Cressie, N. (2015). Statistics for spatial data. John Wiley & Sons. 
- Stein, M. L. (1999). Interpolation of spatial data: some theory for kriging. Springer Science & Business Media.
- Wikle, C. K., Zammit-Mangion, A., & Cressie, N. (2019). Spatio-temporal statistics with R. Chapman and Hall/CRC.
- Schabenberger, O., & Gotway, C. A. (2017). Statistical methods for spatial data analysis. Chapman and Hall/CRC.

Getting started with R.
-    A good introductory reference
-    R Graphics
-    Advanced R
-    An Introduction to R
-    R Data Import/Export
-    R Markdown and an introductory video
-    Quarto and introductory videos

Instructors
Suman Majumder is an Assistant Professor in the Interdisciplinary Statistical Research Unit in the Indian Statistical Institute. He has a PhD in Statistics from the North Carolina State University and an M.Stat. degree from Indian Statistical Institute. His primary research area is spatial and spatiotemporal modeling with miscellaneous applications. He is a member of the ISI and the IISA. He serves currently as the technical editor for Sankhya.

Arnab Hazra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in IIT Kanpur. He has a PhD in Statistics from the North Carolina State University and an M.Stat. degree from ISI. His primary research area is spatial and spatiotemporal modeling and spatial extremes. He is a member of the ASA, IISA, and ISI. He serves currently on the editorial boards of Statistics and Computing, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Sankhya, and Journal of Applied Statistics: Environmental Statistics and Data Science.

Register by sending email to the organiser.