"The objective of this book is to make a link between existing quantitative approaches... and the manner in which we can generalize thess approaches to cases where the available data for analysis have a spatial dimension."--

Researchers are increasingly able to capture spatially referenced data on both a response and a covariate more frequently and in more detail. A combination of geostatisical models and analysis of covariance methods may be used to analyze such data. However, very basic questions regarding the...