เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	Panel Geary's C Spatial Autocorrelation	Moran's I
สาขาวิชา	การวิเคราะห์เชิงพื้นที่	การวิเคราะห์เชิงพื้นที่
ตระกูล	Regression model	Regression model
ปีกำเนิด	1954 (base); 2000s (panel extension)	1950
ผู้ริเริ่ม	R. C. Geary (1954); panel extension in spatial econometrics literature	Patrick A. P. Moran
ประเภท	Spatial autocorrelation statistic	Spatial autocorrelation statistic
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Geary, R. C. (1954). The contiguity ratio and statistical mapping. The Incorporated Statistician, 5(3), 115-145.	Moran, P. A. P. (1950). Notes on continuous stochastic phenomena. Biometrika, 37(1/2), 17–23.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Geary's C for panel data, spatial Geary C panel, panel spatial contiguity ratio, panel Geary contiguity statistic	Moran's I statistic, global Moran's I, spatial autocorrelation index, Moran index
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	6
สรุป	Panel Geary's C extends the classic Geary contiguity ratio to panel datasets, measuring spatial autocorrelation across georeferenced units (regions, cities, countries) observed over multiple time periods. It detects whether neighboring units tend to have similar values, pooling or averaging evidence across the temporal dimension to yield more powerful inference than a single cross-section.	Moran's I is the standard global statistic for detecting spatial autocorrelation: whether nearby locations tend to share similar values. The index ranges from approximately −1 (perfect dispersion) through 0 (spatial randomness) to +1 (perfect clustering), allowing researchers to test whether a geographic pattern differs from complete spatial randomness with a single, interpretable number.