Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis for Spatial Data (Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability)

"This book was a pleasure to review. Most of the emphasis is on insight and intuition with relatively little on traditional multivariate techniques. I also found some of the explanations delightful[W]hile they did not convert me to Bayesianism, [the authors] made me reconsider some of my assumptions. They later state 'Our book is intended as a research monograph, presenting the state of the art' and my impression is that they have succeededIn many sections the formulae are augmented by showing R or S code, making it easy to actually apply the mathematics. In summary, this is a nice book." -Short Book Reviews of the International Statistical Institute "The book contains a wealth of material not available elsewhere in a unified manner. Each chapter contains worked out examples using some well known software packages and has exercises with related computer code and data on a supporting web page. The book is up to date in its coveragean important addition to the literature on spatial data analysis." -Zentralblatt MATH 1053