Summer School Schedule

Slides and required lab files are listed beside each session

Friday, May 20, 2011
Morning session (download):

Introduction to spatial data
Storing, manipulating spatial data
Maps and layers
Lab: making maps in R and GIS

Afternoon session (download):

Geostatistical models for non-Gaussian data
The generalized linear geostatistical model
Bayesian inference and integrated nested Laplace approximations
Interpreting and mapping results
Lab: map of radiation on Rongelap island

Saturday, May 21, 2011
Morning session (download):

Disease mapping and lattice data
Spatial disease incidence data
Gaussian Markov random fields (GMRF)
The Besag, York and Mollie model
Lab: modelling and mapping disease risk

Afternoon session (download):

GMRF approximations for Geostatistical models
GMRF and the Matern correlation function
Inference on Geostatistical models using GMRF
Lab: Fitting the log-Gaussian Cox process for tree locations

Sunday, May 22, 2011
Morning session (download):

Spatio-temporal data and models
Lab: Spatio-temporal analysis of lattice and geostatistical data