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Moran's I

Moran's I is a global statistic, introduced by Patrick Moran in 1950, that measures whether and how a continuous variable is spatially autocorrelated across mapped units. A positive value signals clustering of similar values, a negative value signals a dispersed (checkerboard) pattern, and it is most often used as a diagnostic before moving to spatial regression.

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Moran's I Spatial Autocorrelation Test
Taxonomic method record · regression-model / spatial-analysis
  • Moran, P.A.P. (1950). Notes on Continuous Stochastic Phenomena. Biometrika, 37(1/2), 17–23. · DOI 10.2307/2332142
  • Cliff, A.D. & Ord, J.K. (1981). Spatial Processes: Models and Applications. Pion. · ISBN 978-0850860818
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