Definition of «spatial autocorrelation»

Spatial autocorrelation refers to the phenomenon where things that are close to each other in space tend to be similar or related to each other. It suggests that the values or characteristics of neighboring locations are more alike than those that are farther away.

Sentences with «spatial autocorrelation»

Is there a study out there that I missed (I am thinking something about the temperature spatial autocorrelation for different climate patterns)? (realclimate.org)
A spatial autocorrelation of the grid field map produces a hexagonal structure, with 60Âº rotational symmetry. (emoryhealthsciblog.com)
RM states in the conclusion... «Across numerous weighting specifications a robust LM statistic fails to reject the null hypothesis that no spatial autocorrelation is present, indicating that the estimations and inferences reported in MM07 are not affected by spatial dependence of the surface temperature field.» (realclimate.org)
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