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Local Geographically Weighted Regression

Local Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) estimates a separate regression model at each location in the study area, allowing every coefficient to vary spatially. By weighting nearby observations more heavily than distant ones, GWR reveals how predictor-outcome relationships shift across geographic space rather than forcing a single global estimate on heterogeneous data.

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Local Geographically Weighted Regression
Taxonomic method record · regression-model / spatial-analysis
  • Fotheringham, A. S., Brunsdon, C., & Charlton, M. (2002). Geographically Weighted Regression: The Analysis of Spatially Varying Relationships. Wiley. · ISBN 978-0471496168
  • Brunsdon, C., Fotheringham, A. S., & Charlton, M. E. (1996). Geographically weighted regression: a method for exploring spatial nonstationarity. Geographical Analysis, 28(4), 281-298. · DOI 10.1111/j.1538-4632.1996.tb00936.x
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