Includes bibliographical references and index.

From classical statistics to geostatistics -- Geostatistics: preliminaries -- Structural analysis -- Spatial prediction and kriging -- Geostatistics and spatio-temporal random functions -- Spatio-temporal structural analysis (I): empirical semivariogram and covariogram estimation and model fitting -- Spatio-temporal structural analysis (II): theoretical covariance models -- Spatio-temporal prediction and kriging -- An introduction to functional geostatisties - Appendices. A. Spectral representations -- B. Probabilistic aspects of Uij = Z(si) - Z(sj) - C. Basic theory on restricted maximum likelihood -- D. Most relevant proofs. "Statistical Methods for Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis provides a complete range of spatio-temporal covariance functions and discusses ways of constructing them. This book is a unified approach to modeling spatial and spatio-temporal data together with significant developments in statistical methodology with applications in R."--Publisher's description.