Distance metric choice can both reduce and induce collinearity in geographically weighted regression

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2020, Pages 489-507

  Comber, Alexis ^a   Chi, Khanh ^b   Huy, Man Q ^c   Nguyen, Quan ^d   Lu, Binbin ^e   Phe, Hoang H ^f   Harris, Paul ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b GeoViet Consulting Co Ltd   (Viet Nam)

^c Viet Nam National University   (Viet Nam)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING   (Viet Nam)

^e WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f Vinaconex RD   (Viet Nam)

^g NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

collinearity; distance metrics; Geographically weighted regression; model fit

Indexed keywords

HOUSING MARKET; LINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRICE DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

VIET NAM;

EID: 85049921191     PISSN: 23998083     EISSN: 23998091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2399808318784017     Document Type: Article

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