Spurious spatial regression and heteroscedasticity

Journal of Spatial Science

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-72

  Lauridsena, Jøgen ^a   Kosfeld, Reinhold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial autoregression; Spatial nonstationarity; Spurious regression; Unobserved heteroscedasticity

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052169442     PISSN: 14498596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14498596.2011.567411     Document Type: Article

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