Spatial autocorrelation statistics to detect global and local patterns of spatial data
Medical geography
Public Health
Disease surveillance
Space-time metrics
Wildlife movements
Ecological niche modeling
Students from diverse interests and colleges have made this class an interesting mix of public health, ecology, medical geography, and spatial analysis. Over the past few years, at least 2 students per class have authored or co-authored papers developed out of class projects in this class.
If you want to get some hands-on applying spatial analysis to health or ecological data, this class is for you!