We examine the effects of bank deregulation on the spatial dynamics of retail-bank branching, exploiting, much like a quasi-natural experiment, the context of intense liberalization reforms in Belgium in the late nineties. Using .ne-grained data on branch network dynamics within the metropolitan...

Many countries measure the heights and weights of children in primary and secondary school. Individual children are usually monitored at school against growth charts, with appropriate referrals. Schoolchild data aggregated to the community, state or nation, and validated against population...

We present GeoXp, an R package implementing interactive graphics for exploratory spatial data analysis. We use a data basis concerning public schools of the French Midi-Pyréenées region to illustrate the use of these exploratory techniques based on the coupling between a statistical graph and...

Infill statistics, that is, statistical inference based on very dense observations over a fixed domain has become of late a subject of growing importance. On the other hand, it is a known phenomenon that in many cases infill statistics do not provide optimal rates. The degree of sub-optimality...

This chapter is concerned with methods for analyzing spatial data. After initial discussion of the nature of spatial data, including the concept of randomness, we focus most of our attention on linear regression models that involve interactions between agents across space. The introduction of...