Alleviating the effect of collinearity in geographically weighted regression

Journal of Geographical Systems

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 441-466

  Barcena M J ^a   Menendez P ^b   Palacios, M B ^c   Tusell, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research   (Australia)

^c PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geographically weighted regression; GWR; Shrinkage estimators; Spatial models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HOUSING MARKET; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

BASQUE COUNTRY [SPAIN]; BILBAO; BIZKAIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84919476299     PISSN: 14355930     EISSN: 14355949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10109-014-0199-6     Document Type: Article

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