Table of Contents

1. Geographical Disparities in Mortality Rates: Spatial Data Mining and Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling.- 2. A Fuzzy Approach to Ward's Method of Classification: an Application Case To the Italian University System.- 3. Geostatistics and the Role of Variogram in Time Series Analysis: a Critical Review.- 4. Geostatistics and GIS: Tools for Environmental Risk Assessment.- 5. Socio-Economic Zoning: Comparing Two Statistical Methods.- 6. A Geostatistical Approach to Measure Shrinking Cities: the Case of Taranto.- 7. Social Identity as Determinant of Real Estate Economy in Manhattan.

Reviews

From the book reviews:"The book presents solid and accessible strategies and provides the policy maker with a valued support to policy development. ... All the chapters in this book are organized and well presented. Each paper begins with an introduction and concludes with a list of references. The intended audience for this book is presumably policy makers. However, researchers and graduate students who are involved with spatial modeling can also benefit from this book." (S. E. Ahmed, Technometrics, Vol. 56 (1), January, 2014)