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Frontiers of Spatial Regression

by SAL Plone Administrator — last modified 2006-12-15 19:12

Date June 25-28, 2007
Place University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Instructor Dr. Luc Anselin
Fee $1,500 (fees fund the continued development of GeoDa)
Contact Julia Koschinsky
Info & Registration Workshop Site (note: site times out after 20 min)
AudienceAimed at users with a familiarity of the basic principles and methods of spatial regression analysis. This course deals with advanced topics at the frontier of spatial econometrics and is more demanding in terms of background knowledge.
Content
  • General Method of Moments (GMM) approaches in spatial econometrics, including optimal GMM, models for both heteroskedasticity and spatial error dependence and heteroskedastic and autocorrelation consistent (HAC) variance estimators.
  • Semi-parametric approaches in spatial econometrics, including different ways to introduce semi-parametrics into spatial models, and non-parametric spatial covariance estimation.
  • Spatial Panel Data models, including estimation and specification testing in models for pooled data, spatial seemingly unrelated regression and spatial error components models.
  • Spatial effects in models for discrete dependent variables, including spatial models for count variables, spatial probit and spatial tobit.
Summary The workshop will be held in a state of the art teaching laboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. It spans four days, and will be held in two sessions, 9:00am-12:30 and 2:00-5:30pm (except on the last day, which will run from 8:30am to 4:00pm to allow participants sufficient time to return on the last flight out of Champaign airport).
Lectures and demonstrations will be held in the morning session, while in the afternoon the emphasis will be on hands on experience and laboratory exercises using cutting edge specialized software, including GeoDa, R spdep, and PySpace. There will also be an opportunity to discuss individual research problems with Dr. Anselin in “office hours.” A reception and Happy Hour, respectively, are offered in the evening of the first and third day.
Each participant will receive a package containing a CD with software, readings and sample data sets as well as printouts of all the course slides and other supporting materials.
Workshop Flier (pdf format, color, 1.2Mb)

Link to Foundations of Spatial Regression

Last updated December 15, 2006