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UT Dallas Syllabus For Gisc6379.001 05f Taught by Michael Tiefelsdorf (mrt052000)
UT Dallas Syllabus For Gisc6379.001 05f Taught by Michael Tiefelsdorf (mrt052000)
Policies:
1. Class attendance is expected. Do not arrive late or leave early.
2. Assigned readings are expected to be done prior to each lecture.
3. No make-up examinations, quizzes or labs will be given unless stated by
university policies or under exceptional circumstances.
4. Late assignments or take-home exams will not be accepted (under exceptional
circumstances late homework is graded on a discounted basis).
5. University policies on scholastic dishonesty, academic conduct and classroom
civility will be strictly enforced.
6. Unless otherwise stated, quizzes, examinations, and assignments must be done
individually
7. Students with disabilities and special needs that are recognized by the university
guidelines should meet with the instructor at the beginning of the semester.
Appropriate support in accordance with university policies will be sought to
accommodate their special needs during the lectures, assignments, quizzes, and
exams.
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Syllabus for GISC 6379.001 UTD Fall 2005
Grading Criteria
• The lab may be split into separate installments.
• The pop-quizzes are intended to ensure that the suggested readings are done prior
to the lecture.
• Participation is highly encourages but not graded. Engagement with the course
material will lead to participation and an indirect increase of the course grade. The
course will also run an online discussion list.
Requirements Percent
Mid-term Exam (open book) 20%
Final Exam (open book) 20 %
Group Take-Home Project (15%) with Proposal (5%) 20 %
Lab 1: Point Pattern Analysis 10 %
Lab 2: Spatial Interpolation 10 %
Lab 3: Analysis of Areal Data 10 %
5 Announced Pop-Quizzes @ 2 % (open book) 10 %
Texts
Additional study material will be made available online
Bailey, Trevor C. and Anthony C. Gatrell (1995). Interactive Spatial Data Analysis. New
York: John Wiley & Sons (U.S. ISBN 0-470-23502-0, U.K. ISBN 0-582-24493-5.
(Required text book)
Johnston, K., J.M. Ver Hoef, K. Krivoruchko, and N. Lucas (2001). Using ArcGIS
Geostatistical Analyst. Redlands: ESRI Press (Online available)
Fox, John (2002). An R and S-Plus Companion to Applied Regression. Thousand Oaks:
Sage Publications (Good applied introduction to R and programming in R)
Hamilton, Lawrence C. (1992). Regression with Graphics. A second course in applied
statistics. Belmont, CA: Duxbury Press (Good applied introduction to the
concepts of regression analysis and related linear models)
O’Sullivan, David and David J. Unwin (2003). Geographic Information Analysis. New
York: John Wiley & Sons. (More elementary than Bailey and Gatrell with
stronger GIS focus)
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Syllabus for GISC 6379.001 UTD Fall 2005
Haining, Robert (2003) Spatial Data Analysis. Theory and Practice. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press (Recent theoretical review on spatial data analysis
leading to more advanced subjects than those covered by Bailey and Gatrell)
John C. Davis (1973). Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology. New York: John Wiley &
Sons (Classical reference. Good refresher chapters on inferential statistics and
matrix algebra)
R-project online documentation at http://www.r-project.org/
GeoDa online documentation at http://www.csiss.org/clearinghouse/GeoDa/
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