Opportunities for collaboration and distance education

Having just presented the major features of our web site, our software, and our course, we hope that you have seen something of interest, and will take a moment to investigate. We would like to propose several ways in which our materials may prove useful to you:

• As a touchstone to spatial/temporal statistical methods. We are striving to stay current with the world of spatial statistics, from new techniques to the latest links to web sites containing interesting material. Visit (and search!) our site; if you don't find information about a topic, post a request to a discussion forum!
• As a reference. We have a search facility for our site, and if you simply want to know more about the variogram, or see what we have concerning dengue fever, you can search our documents for those containing the keywords. Or you may seek papers by a certain researcher.
• As a quick-start or a refresher for a particular area. You may just need to get a quick idea of the basics of geostatistics, for example; in this case a visit to our site may be the perfect solution.
• As a launch pad for your own analyses, techniques, methods, etc. As we have said, we seek interaction with colleagues who are also interested in spatial statistics, and we would be delighted to consider posting your work to our site. If you have a research paper, or an example analysis, or a new statistic to propose, let us serve as a platform to help you in disseminating useful information.
• As the basis of a course. You might decide to take four or five of our modules and turn them into the basis for a course. Our course plan is to assign the modules as ``reading'', then discuss them in class, adding additional material and asking questions that derive from the modules.

You may have your own ways of using our site, and we encourage you to discover them! We also have a mailing list, so that we can keep you apprised of changes and improvements to the site. Feel free to join!