WEIGHT MATRICES AND SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION STATISTICS USING A TOPOLOGICAL VECTOR DATA MODEL

Authors
CAN A
Citation
A. Can, WEIGHT MATRICES AND SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION STATISTICS USING A TOPOLOGICAL VECTOR DATA MODEL, International journal of geographical information systems, 10(8), 1996, pp. 1009-1017
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Geografhy,"Information Science & Library Science
Journal title
International journal of geographical information systems → ACNP
ISSN journal
02693798
Volume
10
Issue
8
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1009 - 1017
Database
ISI
SICI code
0269-3798(1996)10:8<1009:WMASAS>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
This paper reports on software to construct alternative weight matrice s and to compute spatial autocorrelation statistics, namely the Moran coefficient and the Geary coefficient using Arc/Info's data structure. As such it is an addition to recent efforts in linking GIS with explo ratory spatial data analysis. The software is interfaced with Arc/Info via the Are Macro Language (AML) so that it can be run in the ARC env ironment. This allows the user to perform exploratory analysis within GIS which may provide insights in subsequent spatial analysis and mode lling.