[OSGeo-Discuss] Staistical analysis support needed

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 03:49:46AM -0700, mayank_agarwal wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Finally I have decided to use Open Layers on client side in conjunction with
> J2EE Technologies,
> GeoServer as a web map server and,
> POST GIS as Spatial Database.
> 
> Now integrating all of these I want to do Statistical data analysis on the
> spatio-temporal data using-
> 1. Moran's I
> 2. Geary's C
> 3. Kriging 
> 4. Local Moran's I
> 5. Spatial Scan Statistic
> 6. Geographic weighted regression
> 
> Does anyone has any idea on how to proceed further using these combination?
> Is there any other client side library that I can use for this?

My guess is that there are two ways that you might explore to do this.

  1. Any time someone says 'statistics', my first thought is 'R'; I
  don't know any of the things you're talking about here, but if these
  are statistical methods of some sort, R seems like a valid place to
  start looking. 

    http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgdal/index.html

    rgdal will let you read OGR data sources (like PostGIS databases)
    into a spatial vector object, and interact with them from there.
  
  2. I know that at least some of these mechanisms (like Kriging) are 
     implemented in GRASS, and I would bet that this is your second best
     option. GRASS is a bit intimidating to a first time user (though I
     guess not much more so than R :)), but a very powerful geographic
     data analysis tool.

Best of luck,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer