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Below is a list of Spatial Analysis Tools. CSISS researchers have chosen these tools for their usefulness in aiding the exploration and analysis of spatial phenomena in the social sciences. This list is by no means complete and, it is hoped, will continue to grow with input from the research community. Inclusion on this list is not an endorsement by CSISS. If you have comments, have found an error, or would like to nominate a tool for inclusion please contact Luc Anselin.

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ClusterSeer
http://www.terraseer.com/csr/clusterseer_features.html
ClusterSeer provides statistics for evaluating disease clusters in space and time.
CrimeStat
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/crimestat.html
A spatial statistics program for the analysis of crime incident locations.
FragStats
http://www.umass.edu/landeco/research/fragstats/fragstats.html
Computation of a wide variety of landscape metrics for categorical map patterns.
GeoVista Studio Project
http://www.geovistastudio.psu.edu/jsp/index.jsp
An open software development environment for geospatial data analysis, exploratory spatial data analysis and knowledge discovery.
GSLIB
http://www.gslib.com/
Geostatistical software LIBrary written in Fortran.
GSTAT
http://www.gstat.org/
Software for geostatistical modelling, prediction and simulation.
Jim Lesage's Spatial Econometrics Toolbox
http://www.spatial-econometrics.com/
Spatial Econometrics Toolbox for MATLAB. Functions implement both maximum likelihood and Bayesian estimation of a host of spatial econometric models.
Kelly Pace's Spatial Statistics Toolbox
http://spatial-statistics.com/software_index.htm
Toolbox for MATLAB and SpaceStatPack for Fortran for estimating large-scale lattice models.
Peter Diggle's Point Pattern Programs
http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/Software/Splancs/
Programs for S and R to analyze point patterns.
Roger Bivand's SPDEP Spatial Analysis Tools
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html#spdep
R programs for spatial autocorrelation analysis and spatial regression.
S+ SpatialStats
http://www.insightful.com/products/spatial/default.asp
Add on to the S-Plus statistical package to carry out point pattern analysis, geostatistical analysis and spatial regression in an object-oriented framework.
SAS-Geostats
http://www.sas.com/products/gis/
Geostatistics programs in SAS.
Spatstat
http://www.spatstat.org
Splus/R library for spatial statistics
STARS: Space Time Analysis of Regional Systems
http://regal.sdsu.edu/index.php/Main/STARS
STARS is an exploratory data analysis package designed for variables measured on geographical units over time. Version 0.7.2 Released 2004-July-09.
Variowin
http://www-sst.unil.ch/research/variowin/index.html
A windows-based program for interactive variogram analysis (geostatistics).
Venables and Ripley
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS4/Software.html
S+ and R code from Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS.
Winbugs-Geobugs
http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/winbugs/geobugs.shtml
Estimation of models (including spatial models) by means of the Gibbs sampler/Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods.


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