Spatial Statistics: Free Virtual Campus Web Seminar on Regression Analysis Basics

bbicking1 — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:33:00 GMT

This blog post was written by Lauren Scott, Geoprocessing/Spatial Statistics Product Engineer in the Software Products Group at ESRI in Redlands.

There are a number of good resources where you can learn about the new regression analysis tools in ArcGIS 9.3. The newest resource is a free one-hour Web seminar, Regression Analysis Basics in ArcGIS 9.3, available for download from the ESRI Virtual Campus.

Other Regression Analysis resources include:

Regression Analysis Basics Documentation
Ordinary Least Squares Regression Tool Help and Learn more about how OLS works
Geographically Weighted Regression Tool Help and Learn more about how GWR works
Interpreting OLS tool results
Interpreting GWR tool results
Several articles can be found in the Spring 2009 issue of ArcUser magazine [Try the Flip Page view of ArcUser!]:

Answering Why Questions: An introduction to using regression analysis with spatial data;
Regression Analysis Components; and
Applying Geographically Weighted Regression to a Real Estate Problem.

GEOconnexion International Magazine, December/January 2009, includes an article titled Regression Analysis Tools for GIS Modeling
Chapter 5, Analyzing Geographic Relationships, in The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, Volume 2 discusses regression analysis and some of the challenges when it is applied to spatial data.

Enjoy!

Geoprocessing : regression analysis basics

Spatial Statistics: Free Virtual Campus Web Seminar on Regression Analysis Basics