Local linear estimation of spatially varying coefficient models: An improvement on the geographically weighted regression technique

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 986-1005

  Wang, Ning ^a   Mei, Chang Lin ^a   Yan, Xiao Dong ^b  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANNING METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 43349090561     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a3941     Document Type: Article

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