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Space-Time Geary's C

Space-Time Geary's C extends the classical Geary contiguity ratio to panel or longitudinal spatial data, measuring autocorrelation across both geographic neighbors and adjacent time periods simultaneously. Values below 1 indicate positive space-time clustering; values above 1 indicate dispersion, and a value near 1 suggests random arrangement across the space-time lattice.

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Sources

  1. Geary, R. C. (1954). The Contiguity Ratio and Statistical Mapping. The Incorporated Statistician, 5(3), 115-145. DOI: 10.2307/2986645
  2. Anselin, L. (2019). A Local Indicator of Multivariate Spatial Association: Extending Geary's C. Geographical Analysis, 51(2), 133-150. DOI: 10.1111/gean.12164

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