Geographically weighted regression with parameter-specific distance metrics

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 982-998

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

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GWmodel; GWR; local regression; model anisotropy; spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; GIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 84999635796     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2016.1263731     Document Type: Article

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