the statistical analysis of spatial data is usually done under gaussian assumption for the underlying random field model. when this assumption is not satisfied, block bootstrap methods can be used to analyze spatial data. one of the crucial problems in this setting is specifying the block sizes. in this paper, we present asymptotic optimal block size for separate block bootstrap to estimate the...

background: using spatial analysis tools to determine the spatial patterns of china province-level perinatal mortality and using spatial econometric model to examine the impacts of health care resources and different socio-economic factors on perinatal mortality. methods: the global moran’s i index is used to examine whether the spatial autocorrelation exists in selected regions and moran’s i s...

the present study seeks to investigate users’ perception and evaluation of the function of designed environments and highlights a deeper understanding of man-environment relationship. the study tries to answer the question: “is there any relationship between the physical features of environment and users’ perception and evaluation of the environment and their spatial behaviors?” such investigat...

the aim of this paper is to examine and analyze the spatial distribution of population in cities of the southern coastal region of iran by using common models and techniques in the field and to study the trends of evolution in a time period of 40 years (1345-1385). models used in the study can be classified into three main groups. the first group is the primate city indexes (including jefferson...

casimir forces of massive ferrnionic dirac fields are calculated for parallel plates geometry in spatial space with dimension d and imposing bag model boundary conditions. it is shown that in the range of ma>>l where m is mass of fields quanta and a is the separation distance of the plates, it is equal to massive bosonic fields casimir force for each degree of freedom. we argue this equality ex...

Water changes information in the hydrological system, in time and space, as an environmental issue takes heed of managers and decision makers in watershed management and river engineering, which can be addressed by using spatially distributed modeling. In this study simulation of water balance components in Taleghan mountainous watershed is performed using the spatially distributed hydrological...

we created a simple cellular automata (ca) model for hepatitis b infection dynamics associated with spatial structure performed under various ages of liver tissue correspond to different immune responses in order to study the effect of spatial heterogeneities on the dynamical evolution of a viral infection. the results of the simulations show biphasic nature of viral load decreases, as observed...