Lu, Binbin, Harris, Paul, Gollini, Isabella, Charlton, Martin and Brunsdon, Chris (2013) Introducing the GWmodel R and python packages for modelling spatial heterogeneity. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on GeoComputation.
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Abstract
In the very early developments of quantitative geography, statistical techniques were
invariably applied at a ‘global’ level, where moments or relationships were assumed constant
across the study region (Fotheringham and Brunsdon, 1999). However, the world is not an
“average” space but full of variations and as such, statistical techniques need to account for
different forms of spatial heterogeneity or non-stationarity (Goodchild, 2004). Consequently,
a number of local methods were developed, many of which model non- stationarity
relationships via some regression adaptation. Examples include: the expansion method
(Casetti, 1972), random coefficient modelling (Swamy et al., 1988), multilevel modelling
(Duncan and Jones, 2000) and space varying parameter models (Assunção, 2003).
One such localised regression, geographically weighted regression (GWR) (Brunsdon et
al., 1996) has become increasingly popular and has been broadly applied in many disciplines
outside of its quantitative geography roots. This includes: regional economics, urban and
regional analysis, sociology and ecology. There are several toolkits available for applying
GWR, such as GWR3.x (Charlton et al., 2007); GWR 4.0 (Nakaya et al., 2009); the GWR
toolkit in ArcGIS (ESRI, 2009); the R packages spgwr (Bivand and Yu, 2006) and gwrr
(Wheeler, 2011); and STIS (Arbor, 2010). Most focus on the fundamental functions of GWR
or some specific issue - for example, gwrr provides tools to diagnose collinearity.
As a major extension, we report in this paper the development an integrated framework for
handling spatially varying structures, via a wide range of geographically weighted (GW)
models, not just GWR. All functions are included in an R package named GWmodel, which
is also mirrored with a set of GW modelling tools for ESRI’s ArcGIS written in Python.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | GWmodel R; python packages; modelling spatial heterogeneity; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > National Centre for Geocomputation, NCG |
Item ID: | 6131 |
Depositing User: | Martin Charlton |
Date Deposited: | 20 May 2015 15:47 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on GeoComputation |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/6131 |
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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