GEOGRAPHY AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT 657

Spring 2006

A variety of software packages will be used in the course, some for class demonstrations, some for various class assignments. The software will either be that which is accessible in SBS facilities or in University facilities and/or that which can be freely downloaded from the internet. Although there might instances where a student could utilize programming skills, there will not be any assignments requiring the use of programming. In general it is expected that students will either already be somewhat familiar with the software, e.g., SPSS, or will take advantage of tutorials and examples found on the internet. Examples of both are found below

SPSS

This software is on the PC’s in the ICL and in the DASL

http://sbsri.web.arizona.edu/new_page_2.htm

It is also on the PC’s in the University Library Information Commons

R (with various packages)

This software is on the PC’s in the ICL and in the DASL

http://sbsri.web.arizona.edu/new_page_2.htm

R (and the various packages) is free software and can be downloaded from

http://www.r-project.org/

Documentation for the packages in R

http://sekhon.polisci.berkeley.edu/stats/html/00Index.html

MINITAB

This software is not available on the PC’s in the ICL nor in the DASL.

However it is available on the PC’s in the library, for information see

http://www.library.arizona.edu/ic/ic-statistics.html

CRIMESTAT

This software is not available on the PC’s in the ICL nor in the DASL.

It is available for free download however.

http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/CRIMESTAT/

GGOBI

This software is not available on the PC’s in the ICL nor in the DASL.

It is available for free download however. It can also be used in connection

with R. http://www.ggobi.org/downloads/

Luc Anselin Short Course on Spatial Analysis"

A comparison of different software packages for analysis of categorical data

1. SPSS tutorial- Basics, Regression and ANOVA

3. SPSS tutorial- Getting Started

4. SPSS tutorial- Basics, Correlation and ANOVA

5. Links for SPSS tutorials and examples

6. SPSS Advanced Models tutorial

Tutorials for R

R Commander is a menu-driven front end for R. It can be downloaded and installed from within R (as a "package"). See R Commander, installation and use for details General:

Analysis of Environmental and Ecological Data

Spatial Statistics

Simple R

Using R for Data Analysis and Graphics

Notes on R: A Programming Environment for Data Analysis and Graphics

Regression in R

R functions for Regression

Practical Regression and ANOVA in R

Linear Regression and model checking in R

Multiple Regression in R

S+ and R appendix to "Applied Regression by J. Fox

Regression diagnostics in R