Stats 253: Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Data

Dennis Sun, Stanford University, Summer 2014


The following are archived materials from Summer 2014.

Theme Monday Wednesday
Introduction and autoregression
  • What is spatial and temporal data?
  • Review of linear regression
  • Autoregressive processes
Lecture Slides
Reading: Sherman, Ch. 1, Shumway/Stoffer, Chs. 1, 2
  • Bootstrap standard errors for AR processes
  • Spatial autoregression
Lecture Slides
Reading: Sherman, Ch. 4
J. Besag (1974), Spatial Interaction and the Statistical Analysis of Lattice Systems (with discussion).
Visualizing data, state-space models R Tutorial
  • Intro to R
  • Spatial statistics packages
Lecture Materials
Reading: skim Bivand, Chs. 2, 3, 9 (optional: Ch. 4)
  • state-space models
  • multivariate normal distribution
  • Kalman filter
Lecture Slides
Reading: Shumway/Stoffer, Ch. 6.1-6.3
G. Petris and S. Petrone (2011), State Space Models in R
Geostatistics
  • more on the Kalman filter
  • MMSE prediction
  • geostatistics / kriging
Lecture Notes
Reading: Sherman, Ch. 2
  • stationarity
  • covariance estimation
  • variogram
Lecture Slides
Reading: Sherman, Ch. 3; Bivand, Ch. 8
Frequency domain methods
  • Fourier transform
  • Spectral analysis
Lecture Slides | R Code for sinusoids, noise
Reading: Shumway/Stoffer, Ch. 4.1-4.6
  • Time-frequency analysis
  • Non-negative matrix factorization
  • Audio source separation
Lecture Slides | Audio: Mary, Madonna
R functions, R scripts: Mary, Madonna
Reading: Smaragdis et al (2014), Static and Dynamic Source Separation Using Nonnegative Factorizations.
Point processes
  • Poisson processes
  • Second-order interactions
Lecture Slides
R Code for CSR demo
Reading: Sherman, Ch. 7; Bivand, Ch. 7
  • Spatio-temporal point processes
Lecture Slides
Reading: Gabriel et al (2012), stpp: An R Package for Plotting, Simulating and Analyzing Spatio-Temporal Point Patterns
Spatio-temporal Processes
  • Testing for isotropy
  • Kriging for spatio-temporal data
  • Connection with kernel methods
Lecture Slides
Reading: Sherman, Ch. 6
  • Dynamic Autoregressive Spatio-Temporal Models
Lecture Slides
Code: Wind Data Analysis
Project Presentations (Thursday and Friday) No Lecture (Joint Statistical Meetings) No Lecture (Joint Statistical Meetings)
Bayesian Approaches and Hierarchical Models
  • Fundamentals of Bayesian inference
  • Hierarchical models
  • Introduction to BUGS / STAN
Lecture Slides
Peer Grades Example: (Shuffled) Data | JAGS | R Code
  • Hierarchical models for spatio-temporal data
Lecture Slides
Reading: