A new spatial-attribute weighting function for geographically weighted regression

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 996-1005

  Shi, Haijin ^a   Zhang, Lianjun ^b   Liu, Jianguo ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTANCES; GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION (GWR); SPATIAL-ATTRIBUTE WEIGHTING FUNCTION; TREE DIAMETER;

FORESTRY;

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STAND STRUCTURE; TREE;

DIAMETER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREES;

EID: 33746054508     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X05-295     Document Type: Article

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