Geographically weighted regression with a non-Euclidean distance metric: A case study using hedonic house price data

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 660-681

  Lu, Binbin ^a   Charlton, Martin ^a   Harris, Paul ^a   Fotheringham, A Stewart ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

local regression; non stationarity; real estate; road network distance; travel time

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894273575     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2013.865739     Document Type: Article

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