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Geary's C

Geary's C is a global spatial autocorrelation statistic that measures whether nearby areal units share similar attribute values. Unlike Moran's I, it focuses on squared differences between adjacent pairs rather than cross-products of deviations from the mean, making it more sensitive to local dissimilarity and less influenced by global trends.

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Geary's Contiguity Ratio
Taxonomic method record · regression-model / spatial-analysis
  • Geary, R. C. (1954). The Contiguity Ratio and Statistical Mapping. The Incorporated Statistician, 5(3), 115–145. · URL
  • Cliff, A. D., & Ord, J. K. (1981). Spatial Processes: Models and Applications. Pion Limited. · ISBN 0850860814
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Taxonomic bucketLocal Geary's Cmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketLocal Indicators of Spatial Associationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketMoran's Imachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketSpatial Autocorrelationmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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