Accounting for Spatial Autocorrelation in Linear Regression Models Using Spatial Filtering with Eigenvectors

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-66

  Thayn, Jonathan B ^a   Simanis, Joseph M ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

eigenvectors; linear regression; spatial filtering; spatial misspecification

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; DATA SET; EIGENVALUE; ERROR ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 84870938518     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2012.685048     Document Type: Article

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