เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	Panel Spatial Autocorrelation	Moran's I
สาขาวิชา	การวิเคราะห์เชิงพื้นที่	การวิเคราะห์เชิงพื้นที่
ตระกูล	Regression model	Regression model
ปีกำเนิด	1988–2003	1950
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Anselin, L.; Elhorst, J. P.	Patrick A. P. Moran
ประเภท	Diagnostic test / exploratory statistic	Spatial autocorrelation statistic
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Anselin, L. (2013). Spatial Econometrics: Methods and Models. Springer Netherlands. (Originally published 1988.) ISBN: 978-9401577991	Moran, P. A. P. (1950). Notes on continuous stochastic phenomena. Biometrika, 37(1/2), 17–23.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	spatial autocorrelation in panel data, panel spatial dependence, spatio-temporal autocorrelation, cross-sectional dependence in panels	Moran's I statistic, global Moran's I, spatial autocorrelation index, Moran index
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	5	6
สรุป	Panel Spatial Autocorrelation measures whether observations that are geographically close also tend to have similar values across repeated time periods. It extends classic cross-sectional spatial autocorrelation statistics such as Moran's I to panel data, enabling researchers to detect spatial dependence consistently over time and to diagnose whether a panel regression model requires a spatial component.	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.