The class reviewed the content of ESRI’s ArcGIS spatial statistics blog and reported on areas of interest and potential future use from each student’s perspective.  With regards to statistical predictions involving three dimensional problems spanning the subsurface, groundwater, surface and atmospheric systems, one challenge is how to use ArcGIS statistics to evaluate the connectivity and interaction of these systems to predict or estimate relationships between them.

ArcMarine has a 3-D component but is still under development and does not directly address the issues of spatial statistical analyses of 3D systems.

Jen’s identification of the spatial statistics in ArcGIS handbook was interesting and may be useful for identifying tools and analyses that are appropriate.

Peggy’s identification of the externally developed tool for statistically evaluating flow through networks (rivers and streams) may also be useful.  See her post for link to this tool.

Dori’s discussion on identification of generating network spatial weights is also relevant to our approach and something Jen and I have utilized previously for our research.

Finally, evaluating further the tools available in the “Assess Overall Spatial Patterns” and the “Model Relationships” portion of the ArcGIS blog also look prospective and worthy of further investigation.