Dong, Guanpeng, Nakaya, Tomoki and Brunsdon, Chris (2018) Geographically weighted regression models for ordinal categorical response variables: An application to geo-referenced life satisfaction data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. ISSN 0198-9715
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Abstract
Ordinal categorical responses are commonly seen in geo-referenced survey data while spatial statistics tools for
modelling such type of outcome are rather limited. The paper extends the local spatial modelling framework to
accommodate ordinal categorical response variables by proposing a Geographically Weighted Ordinal
Regression (GWOR) model. The GWOR model offers a suitable statistical tool to analyse spatial data with ordinal
categorical responses, allowing for the exploration of spatially varying relationships. Based on a geo-referenced
life satisfaction survey data in Beijing, China, the proposed model is employed to explore the socio-spatial
variations of life satisfaction and how air pollution is associated with life satisfaction. We find a negative association between air pollution and life satisfaction, which is both statistically significant and spatially varying.
The economic valuation of air pollution results show that residents of Beijing are willing to pay about 2.6% of
their annual income for per unit air pollution abatement, on average.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Geographically weighted regression; Spatial heterogeneity; Ordinal response variables; Air pollution; Environmental valuation; Beijing; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > National Centre for Geocomputation, NCG Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
Item ID: | 13056 |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.01.012 |
Depositing User: | Prof. Chris Brunsdon |
Date Deposited: | 16 Jun 2020 17:11 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Computers, Environment and Urban Systems |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/13056 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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