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## Glossary Geocomputation An emerging subdiscipline with human geography that attempts to combine geography, mathematics, statistics, data science, and prompting science to help make sense of spatial patterns and processes. Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) A technique for studying spatial variables that maybe related or autocorrelated but variably over space. GWR replaces global modeling of relationships between variables with local modeling. Quantitative Revolution A set of methods and analytic tools first developed in the post WW" era in geography predicated upon using mathematics and statistics to yield insights into spatial laws and patterns. Spatial Autocorrelation The degree to which one object is similar to other nearby objects; the degree of proximity or distance of one object to another. Spatial autocorrelation is a problem in statistical analyses in that standard statistical techniques often assume independence among observations. Spatial Science A paradigm or approach, which emerged in the post-World War II era in geography, which sought to use quantitative methods, spatial modeling, and natural scientific approaches to construe spatial patterns as underpinned b

Author

Johnston, Ron

Publisher

Elsevier

Published

2020

Language

EN