Using geographically weighted regression for housing market segmentation

International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 161-177

  Manganelli, Benedetto ^a   Pontrandolfi, Piergiuseppe ^a   Azzato, Antonello ^a   Murgante, Beniamino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Geographically weighted regression; GWR; Real estate market; Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial statistics; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907942343     PISSN: 17438187     EISSN: 17438195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIDM.2014.065100     Document Type: Article

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