Bivand, Roger S.


E-mail:

Roger.Bivand@nhh.no

Telephone:

+ 47 559 59355

Fax:

+ 47 559 59543

Title:

Professor, dr habil., Ph.D.

Nationality:

UK

Teaching languages:

English, Norwegian, Polish

Teaching areas:

Economic Geography, Spatial Data Analysis, Geographical Information Systems, Spatial Econometrics

Research

Quantitative Geography, Economic Geography

Selected publications :
  • "Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R." Springer, New York, 2008, (co-authors Edzer Pebesma and Virgilio Gómez-Rubio).
  • "Implementing representations of space in economic geography". Journal of Regional Science 48 (2008), 1-27.
  • "Error Propagation in Spatial Prediction". In: Shekhar, S. and Xiong, H. (eds.), Encyclopedia of GIS. New York: Springer Science+Business Media, pp. 287-290, 2008.
  • "Methods to account for spatial autocorrelation in the analysis of species distributional data: a review". Ecography 30 (2007), 609-628 (co-authors Carsten Dormann et al.).
  • "Regional growth in Western Europe: detecting spatial misspecification using the R environment", Papers in Regional Science, Vol. 85, No. 2 (2006), 277-297 (co-author Rolf J. Brunstad).
  • "Implementing Spatial Data Analysis Software Tool in R", Geography Analysis 38 (2006), 23-40.
  • "Regional growth in Western Europe: an empirical exploration of interactions with agriculture and agricultural policy" , pp. 351-374 in Fingleton, B. (ed) European Regional Growth, Springer, New York, 2003 (co-author R. J. Brunstad).
  • "Spatial econometrics functions in R: Classes and methods", Journal of Geographical Systems, 4 (2002) 405--421.
  • "Modelling the impact of the introduction of Compulsory Competitive Tendering." Regional Science and Urban Economics, 30 (2000) 203-219. (co-author S. Szymanski).

Other interests/
involvements:

Academic:
Ordinary Member, "The R Foundation for Statistical Computing"

Member of the School Council of Warsaw University of Technology School of  Business, 1992-