A New Perspective about Moran's Coefficient: Spatial Autocorrelation as a Linear Regression Problem

Geographical Analysis

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-141

  Dray, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; EIGENVALUE; MODELING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953293329     PISSN: 00167363     EISSN: 15384632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4632.2011.00811.x     Document Type: Article

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