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Geographically Weighted PCA

Geographically Weighted Principal Component Analysis (GWPCA) is a local dimensionality-reduction method introduced by Harris, Brunsdon, and Charlton in 2011. It extends classical PCA by fitting a separate weighted PCA at every location in a dataset, allowing eigenstructures — the principal components and their loadings — to vary continuously across geographic space rather than being constrained to a single global solution. GWPCA is suited to researchers in environmental science, public health, and regional economics who suspect that multivariate relationships among variables differ by location.

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Geographically Weighted Principal Component Analysis (GWPCA)

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Harris, P., Brunsdon, C., & Charlton, M. (2011). Geographically weighted principal components analysis. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 25(10), 1717–1736. · DOI 10.1080/13658816.2011.554838

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