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	Interrupted Time Series Spaziale	Analisi Spaziale dell'Impatto Causale
Campo	Inferenza causale	Inferenza causale
Famiglia	Regression model	Regression model
Anno di origine	1990s–2000s	2010s (codified)
Ideatore	Extension of McDowall et al. (1980) ITS framework; spatial adaptations developed in epidemiology and geography through the 1990s–2000s	Delgado & Florax (spatial DiD); Halleck Vega & Elhorst (SLX model); broader lineage in spatial econometrics (Anselin, 1988)
Tipo	Quasi-experimental causal inference with spatial adjustment	Quasi-experimental causal inference with spatial data
Fonte seminale	McDowall, D., McCleary, R., Meidinger, E. E., & Hay, R. A. (1980). Interrupted Time Series Analysis. Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0803913950	Delgado, M. S., & Florax, R. J. G. M. (2015). Difference-in-differences techniques for spatial data: Local autocorrelation and spatial interaction. Economics Letters, 137, 123-126.
Alias	Spatial ITS, Geospatial ITS, Spatially-adjusted ITS, SITS	spatial causal inference, geo-causal analysis, spatial treatment effect estimation, spatial impact evaluation
Correlati	6	4
Sintesi	Spatial Interrupted Time Series (Spatial ITS) extends the classic ITS design to settings where units are geo-referenced and outcomes in one location may spill over into or correlate with outcomes in neighbouring locations. It estimates the causal effect of a discrete intervention on an outcome time series while explicitly modelling geographic autocorrelation, preventing biased standard errors and enabling detection of spatial spillovers.	Spatial causal impact analysis estimates the causal effect of a spatially-targeted intervention — a policy, shock, or treatment applied to particular locations — while explicitly accounting for geographic spillovers between treated and untreated units. By combining quasi-experimental designs such as difference-in-differences or regression discontinuity with spatial econometric models, it separates the direct local effect of a treatment from indirect effects that diffuse to neighbouring areas.