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Spatial Stratified Heterogeneity

Spatial Stratified Heterogeneity, commonly known as Geodetector, is a framework introduced by Jinfeng Wang and colleagues in 2010 for measuring and detecting spatial heterogeneity in data and identifying environmental risk factors. It quantifies the degree to which a given factor (variable) explains spatial variation in an outcome and is particularly valuable for environmental epidemiology, ecology, and geographical analysis where spatial non-stationarity is common.

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Spatial Stratified Heterogeneity (Geodetector)
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  • Wang, J. F., Li, X. H., Christakos, G., Liao, Y. L., Zhang, T., & Gu, X. (2010). Geographical detectors–based health risk assessment and its application in the neural tube defects study for the C–H plane. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 24(1), 107–127. · DOI 10.1080/13658810802443457
  • Wang, J. F., Zhang, T. L., & Fu, B. J. (2016). A measure of spatial stratified heterogeneity. Ecological Indicators, 67, 250–256. · DOI 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.02.052
  • Song, Y., Wu, P., Gilmore, D., Zhang, Q., Feng, Z., Wang, J., & Lou, L. (2020). Spatial autoregressive modelling of functional traits: a study case on gap-phase regeneration in a Chinese subtropical forest. Journal of Spatial Science, 65(2), 209–221. · URL
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