New Approaches for Calculating Moran's Index of Spatial Autocorrelation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Yanguang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CITY; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEARY COEFFICIENT; GEOGRAPHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORAN INDEX; POPULATION SIZE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL WEIGHT MATRIX; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; VALIDATION STUDY;

GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84880071635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068336     Document Type: Article

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