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Spatial and Geographically Weighted Regression

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Encyclopedia of GIS

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Spatial prediction; Regression; Global and local spatial modeling; Simultaneous autoregression; Moving average regression; Conditional spatial regression

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Spatial regression (SR) is a global spatial modeling technique in which spatial autocorrelation among the regression parameters are taken into account. SR is usually performed for spatial data obtained from spatial zones or areas. The basic aim in SR modeling is to establish the relationship between a dependent variable measured over a spatial zone and other attributes of the spatial zone, for a given study area, where the spatial zones are the subset of the study area. While SR is known to be a modeling method in spatial data analysis literature [1,2,3,4,5,6], in spatial data-mining literature it is considered to be a classification technique [7].

Geographically weighted regression (GWR) is a powerful exploratory method in spatial data analysis. It serves for detecting local variations in spatial behavior and...

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  1. Geodetic and Geographic Information Technologies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

    H. Sebnem Düzgün & Serkan Kemeç

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  1. H. Sebnem Düzgün
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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Shashi Shekhar (McKnight Distinguished University Professor) (McKnight Distinguished University Professor)

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Hui Xiong (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Düzgün, H., Kemeç, S. (2008). Spatial and Geographically Weighted Regression. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_1242

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