This book takes both a retrospective and prospective view of the field of spatial analysis by combining selected reprints of classic articles by Arthur Getis with current observations by leading experts in the field. Four main aspects are highlighted, dealing with spatial analysis, pattern analysis, local statistics as well as illustrative empirical applications. Researchers and students will gain an appreciation of Getis' methodological contributions to spatial analysis and the broad impact of the methods he has helped pioneer on an impressively broad array of disciplines including spatial epidemiology, demography, economics, and ecology. The volume is a compilation of high impact original contributions, as evidenced by citations, and the latest thinking on the field by leading scholars. This makes the book ideal for advanced seminars and courses in spatial analysis as well as a key resource for researchers seeking a comprehensive overview of recent advances and future directions in the field.

Zusammenfassung
Spatial data analysis has seen explosive growth in recent years. Both in mainstream statistics and econometrics as well as in many applied ?elds, the attention to space, location, and interaction has become an important feature of scholarly work. The methodsdevelopedto dealwith problemsofspatialpatternrecognition,spatialau- correlation, and spatial heterogeneity have seen greatly increased adoption, in part due to the availability of user friendlydesktopsoftware. Throughhis theoretical and appliedwork,ArthurGetishasbeena majorcontributing?gureinthisdevelopment. In this volume, we take both a retrospective and a prospective view of the ?eld. We use the occasion of the retirement and move to emeritus status of Arthur Getis to highlight the contributions of his work. In addition, we aim to place it into perspective in light of the current state of the art and future directions in spatial data analysis. To this end, we elected to combine reprints of selected classic contributions by Getiswithchapterswrittenbykeyspatialscientists.Thesescholarswerespeci?cally invited to react to the earlier work by Getis with an eye toward assessing its impact, tracing out the evolution of related research, and to re?ect on the future broadening of spatial analysis. The organizationof the book follows four main themes in Getis' contributions: • Spatial analysis • Pattern analysis • Local statistics • Applications For each of these themes, the chapters provide a historical perspective on early methodological developments and theoretical insights, assessments of these c- tributions in light of the current state of the art, as well as descriptions of new techniques and applications.

Inhalt
Spatial Analysis.- Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis.- Spatial Interaction and Spatial Autocorrelation: A Cross-Product Approach.- Spatial Statistical Analysis and Geographic Information Systems.- Whose Hand on the Tiller? Revisiting Spatial Statistical Analysis and GIS.- Spatial Interaction and Spatial Autocorrelation.- Pattern Analysis.- Second-Order Analysis of Point Patterns: The Case of Chicago as a Multi-center Urban Region.- Second-Order Neighborhood Analysis of Mapped Point Patterns.- A Class of Local and Global K Functions and Their Exact Statistical Methods.- Spatial Point Pattern Analysis of Plants.- Local Statistics.- The Analysis of Spatial Association by Use of Distance Statistics.- Constructing the Spatial Weights Matrix Using a Local Statistic.- Spatial Autocorrelation: A Statistician's Reflections.- Health Surveillance Around Prespecified Locations Using Case-Control Data.- Applications.- Spatial Filtering in a Regression Framework: Examples Using Data on Urban Crime, Regional Inequality, and Government Expenditures.- Characteristics of the Spatial Pattern of the Dengue Vector, Aedes aegypti, in Iquitos, Peru.- Spatial Filtering and Missing Georeferenced Data Imputation: A Comparison of the Getis and Griffith Methods.- Spatial Patterns of Fertility in Rural Egypt.