เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	Geary's C Spatial Autocorrelation	Spatial Lag Model
สาขาวิชา	การวิเคราะห์เชิงพื้นที่	การวิเคราะห์เชิงพื้นที่
ตระกูล	Hypothesis test	Regression model
ปีกำเนิด	1954	1988
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Roy C. Geary	Anselin (textbook formalisation); LeSage & Pace
ประเภท	Global spatial autocorrelation statistic	Spatial autoregressive regression
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Geary, R. C. (1954). The contiguity ratio and statistical mapping. The Incorporated Statistician, 5(3), 115–146.	Anselin, L. (1988). Spatial Econometrics: Methods and Models. Kluwer Academic.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Geary contiguity ratio, Geary's contiguity ratio, global spatial autocorrelation, Geary C mekânsal otokorelasyon	SAR model, spatial autoregressive model, spatial lag, Uzamsal Gecikme Modeli (SAR / Spatial Lag)
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	2	5
สรุป	Geary's C is a global measure of spatial autocorrelation — whether nearby locations tend to have similar values — introduced by Roy Geary in 1954. Unlike Moran's I, which is built on the covariation of values around the mean, Geary's C is built on the squared differences between neighbouring values, making it more sensitive to local, short-range variation. Values below 1 indicate positive spatial autocorrelation (similar neighbours), near 1 indicate randomness, and above 1 indicate negative autocorrelation.	The Spatial Lag Model is an autoregressive regression that assumes spatial dependence in the dependent variable itself: the outcome values of neighbouring units enter the model as an explanatory term (ρWy). It was formalised in Anselin's Spatial Econometrics (1988) and developed further by LeSage and Pace (2009), and it decomposes spillover effects into direct, indirect, and total impacts.