摘要
This paper surveys the current state of teaching spatial statistics in the United States(US),with commentary about the future teaching of such a course.It begins with a historical overview,and proposes what constitutes suitable content for a contemporary spatial statistics course.It notes that contemporary university-level spatial statistics courses are mostly taught across myriad units,including biology/ecology,climatology,economics(as spatial econometrics),environmental studies,epidemiology/public health,forestry,geography,geosciences/earth sciences,geospatial information sciences,mathematics,quantitative social science,soil science,and statistics.It discusses the diffusion of this course across the US,which began in the mid-1980s.One result it reports is a model spatial statistics course offering.
