Support - Method Descriptions

TerraSeer software offers a variety of statistical methods to help you understand your data, clarify your questions, and decide on next steps.

Methods in our Software

Use TerraSeer software to help you detect spatial and temporal patterns through exploratory spatial data analysis (including cluster detection and boundary detection and analysis) and/or build predictive models through spatial regression.

Click on a method to learn more about it.

Exploratory spatial, temporal, and spatio-temporal data analysis

Spatial cluster detection

Space-time cluster detection
Besag & Newell's method ClusterSeer Direction method ClusterSeer
Bithell's method ClusterSeer Grimson's method ClusterSeer
Cuzick & Edwards' test ClusterSeer Jacquez's k-NN ClusterSeer
Diggle's method ClusterSeer Knox's method ClusterSeer
G-statistics SpaceStat Kulldorff's space-time scan ClusterSeer
Geary's c SpaceStat Mantel's method ClusterSeer
Grimson's method ClusterSeer Space-time local Moran TerraSeer STIS
Join count statistics SpaceStat

Temporal cluster detection
Kulldorff's spatial scan ClusterSeer Dat's method ClusterSeer
local G test TerraSeer STIS ClusterSeer Ederer-Myers-Mantel method ClusterSeer
local Moran test TerraSeer STIS ClusterSeer Empty cells method ClusterSeer
Moran's I TerraSeer STIS ClusterSeer Grimson's method ClusterSeer
Oden's Ipop ClusterSeer Larsen's method ClusterSeer
Ripley's K-function ClusterSeer Levin & Kline's modified CuSum ClusterSeer
Score test ClusterSeer Wallenstein's Scan ClusterSeer
Turnbull's method ClusterSeer

Predictive models (available in SpaceStat SpaceStat software)

Boundary Detection (available in BoundarySeer )