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Geo-spatial analysis (GIS) project

You have been recruited by Bovine company to investigate the occurrence of the parasitic disease fasciolosis - caused by the trematode Fasciola hepatica

- which is endemic in cattle and sheep in large parts of the state of Victoria ( Australia) and other parts of the world.

You should be aware that a background study into this problem has previously been undertaken by Durr et al. (2005). Most importantly, it describes much of the dataset that you will be using. For other variables, you'll need to refer to my metadata, which is in the dataset zipped folder. Don't overly concern yourself with the Bayesian hierarchical modelling techniques used in their study as we won't be covering them. This paper can (and should) be included as one source in your literature review.

General Overview

The purpose of your analysis is to use the techniques that you have learned to visualise, describe, explore and confirm a hypothesis using the data provided. This will include identifying areas of presence/absence of the trematode and exploring why this might be the case. For example, can the spatial patterns observed be explained by one or more variables in your dataset? Can these be used to accurately predict it? Why or why not?

Part A - Problem Definition, Visualisation and Exploratory Analysis

This part of the assignment should be restricted to between 3,000 and 5,000 words.

Your main tasks in Part A of the assignment are to:
1) Perform a review of the literature to further understand the problem;
2) Use suitable tools to visualise the patterns and distribution of the dataset - don't ignore any variable;
3) Use suitable tools to explore the dataset; and
4) Develop a hypothesis to test (accept or reject) in Part B.

1 Introduction and Literature Review
2 Objectives
3 Materials and Methods
4 Results
5 Discussion
6 Conclusion

Part B - Confirmatory Analysis

Attachment:- project one.rar