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# Front Matter {-}

Paez, Antonio (2021)  
*An Introduction to Spatial Data Analysis and Statistics: A Course in R*  
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ISBN: 978-1-7778515-0-7  
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Antonio Paez  
School of Earth, Environment and Society  
McMaster University  
Hamilton, Ontario  
Canada  
paezha@mcmaster.ca  
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## What is this book and who is it for? {-}

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## Allied resources {-}

You can find additional resources for students and instructors [here](https://github.com/paezha/spatial-analysis-r#resources-for-students-and-instructors)

## Contributing {-}

An advantage of an Open Educational Resource compared to traditional publishing (besides it being free!) is that it is a live, ongoing project, for as long as anyone cares to keep it alive. If you are using this resource, I would encourage you to contribute to help me improve it, by:

- suggesting improvements to the text, e.g. clarifying unclear sentences, fixing typos (see guidance from [Yihui Xie](https://yihui.name/en/2013/06/fix-typo-in-documentation/));
- proposing changes to the code, e.g. to do things in a more efficient way.

Doing this is as easy as editing a wiki page; use the `Edit` button in the toolbar to make a pull request (you need to have a GitHub account and be able to fork the repository):

[![EDIT ME](images/editme.png)](https://github.com/paezha/spatial-analysis-r/edit/main/index.Rmd)

In addition, please feel free to make requests for features or to develop content (see the project's [issue tracker](https://github.com/paezha/spatial-analysis-r/issues)).

### License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons [Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). This means that you are free to:

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- No additional restrictions: You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

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