@article{ed4bfabb81e044a6a27c046172f6d830,
title = "How (not) to lie with spatial statistics",
author = "Luc Anselin",
note = "Funding Information: This commentary is based in part on a presentation made at a meeting on “GIS Research Priorities for Comprehensive Cancer Control,” organized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC){\textquoteright}s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, Santa Barbara, CA, November 17-18, 2004. This research was supported in part through NSF Grant BCS-9978057 to the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science (CSISS), and by a Cooperative Agreement between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine (ATPM), award number TS-1125. The contents of the note are the responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official views of NSF, CDC, or ATPM. Funding Information: The days are long gone when the dearth of spatial analysis software was seen as a major impediment for the application of these techniques in practice. Significant progress has been made, especially during the last decade. Although mainstream commercial statistical software is still limited in its spatial functionality, a large number of freestanding niche packages, applets, macros, and scripts developed for statistical toolboxes and GIS software fill the need. Most of these implementations are noncommercial, developed in the academic world, with considerable research support from agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A notable private-sector exception is the recently released spatial statistics toolbox in the leading commercial GIS software, ArcGIS 9.0, which consists of a collection of functions written in the open-source Python language. ",
year = "2006",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1016/j.amepre.2005.09.015",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "30",
pages = "S3--S6",
journal = "American journal of preventive medicine",
issn = "0749-3797",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "2 SUPPL.",
}