ruumiandmete statistika, mille puhul tuleb arvestada paiknemisest tingitud ruumilist autokorrelatsiooni ning teha järeleandmisi valimi üldnõuete (nn i.i.d.) osas, a class of statistics used to analyze and predict the values associated with spatial or spatiotemporal phenomena; it provides a means of exploring spatial data and generating continuous surfaces from selected sampled data points