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A statistic that assesses the global clustering of spatial data.
Moran’s I and Geary’s C are indices of spatial autocorrelation. A spatial contiguity matrix W ij , with a zero diagonal, and the off-diagonal nonzero elements indicating contiguity of locations i and j are used to code proximities. The most commonly used global indicators of spatial autocorrelation are Moran’s I and Geary’s C which are defined as
Z i is the deviation of the variable of interest x i from the mean \(\bar{x}\) at location i, and N is the number of data points.
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Srinivasan, S. (2017). Spatial Autocorrelation Measures. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_1249
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