"This text provides an effective treatment and review of several ways to view a clustering pattern, depending on the context. Examples include image segmentation, spatial epidemiology, and object recognition using partition models. … Each of the 14 chapters has multiple authors, each aware of the book's content so there is effective cross-referencing. I strongly recommend this book for anybody who is serious about spatial clustering. …"-Tom Burr Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 23, 2004"[This book] is a collection of contributions by leading specialist in the field, which are brought together coherently with unified notation. … Overall, the book is an excellent, well and up-to-date referenced presentation of the current state of research in spatial cluster analysis … an insightful reference not only for the statistician, but also for scientists … ."-Zentralblatt MATH, 1046"The chapter authors are all recognized for their excellence in research. … the text is well written and informative, and is a worthy addition to the library of anyone wishing to keep up to date on current research in spatial cluster modeling."-Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 99, No. 467, September 2004