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Local Indicators of Spatial Association

LISA, introduced by Luc Anselin in 1995, decomposes a global spatial autocorrelation index into a location-specific statistic for every observation. It identifies where statistically significant spatial clusters and outliers occur on a map, enabling researchers to move beyond a single global summary and pinpoint the geographic sources of spatial dependence.

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Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA)
Taxonomic method record · regression-model / spatial-analysis
  • Anselin, L. (1995). Local Indicators of Spatial Association — LISA. Geographical Analysis, 27(2), 93–115. · DOI 10.1111/j.1538-4632.1995.tb00338.x
  • Anselin, L. (2010). Local Spatial Autocorrelation. In A. S. Fotheringham & P. A. Rogerson (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Spatial Analysis (pp. 255–275). SAGE Publications. · URL
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Taxonomic bucketGeary's Cmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyGeographically Weighted Regressionmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketHot Spot Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketLocal Getis-Ord Gi*machine-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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