The Minkowski approach for choosing the distance metric in geographically weighted regression

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 351-368

  Lu, Binbin ^a   Charlton, Martin ^b   Brunsdon, Chris ^b   Harris, Paul ^c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GW model; Minkowski distance; Non stationarity; simulation experiment

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84948075260     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2015.1087001     Document Type: Article

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