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Book Spatial Econometrics  Methods and Models

Download or read book Spatial Econometrics Methods and Models written by L. Anselin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial econometrics deals with spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity, critical aspects of the data used by regional scientists. These characteristics may cause standard econometric techniques to become inappropriate. In this book, I combine several recent research results to construct a comprehensive approach to the incorporation of spatial effects in econometrics. My primary focus is to demonstrate how these spatial effects can be considered as special cases of general frameworks in standard econometrics, and to outline how they necessitate a separate set of methods and techniques, encompassed within the field of spatial econometrics. My viewpoint differs from that taken in the discussion of spatial autocorrelation in spatial statistics - e.g., most recently by Cliff and Ord (1981) and Upton and Fingleton (1985) - in that I am mostly concerned with the relevance of spatial effects on model specification, estimation and other inference, in what I caIl a model-driven approach, as opposed to a data-driven approach in spatial statistics. I attempt to combine a rigorous econometric perspective with a comprehensive treatment of methodological issues in spatial analysis.

Book Introduction to Spatial Econometrics

Download or read book Introduction to Spatial Econometrics written by James LeSage and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2009-01-20 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although interest in spatial regression models has surged in recent years, a comprehensive, up-to-date text on these approaches does not exist. Filling this void, Introduction to Spatial Econometrics presents a variety of regression methods used to analyze spatial data samples that violate the traditional assumption of independence between observat

Book Approximate Profile Likelihood Estimation for Spatial dependence Parameters

Download or read book Approximate Profile Likelihood Estimation for Spatial dependence Parameters written by Hongfei Li and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The problem of accounting for spatial dependence in statistical analyses has received considerable attention due to the prevalence of spatial data in many disciplines. Typically, statistical analyses proceed by first testing if there is spatial dependence in the data. Then, if we find it, we want to measure its strength. Previous studies either do not provide obvious estimators of spatial-dependence parameters in commonly used models, or they cannot be expressed in closed form. For example, maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) cannot typically be expressed in closed form. In this dissertation, we develop alternative closed-form measures of spatial dependence, which we call APLEs, as they are approximate profile likelihood estimators of parameters in spatial lattice models. While we consider three commonly used spatial lattice models, this dissertation primarily focuses on the APLEs for the simultaneous autoregressive (SAR) model. For this model, we derive APLEs under different scenarios where the nuisance parameters are known or unknown. We include both theoretical and simulation-based motivation (including comparison to the MLE) for using APLE as an estimator, and we explore its asymptotic properties. In conjunction, we propose the APLE scatterplot and local APLEs for assessing the strength of spatial dependence visually and for identifying "spatial outliers". Crime data from Columbus, Ohio are used to illustrate the use of our APLE statistics in exploratory data analyses. In addition to considering the properties of APLE as an estimator of spatial dependence, we show that APLE can be used as a test statistic. Finally, we derive APLEs in the presence of measurement error, as well as heteroskedasticity. Beyond the SAR-based APLE, we also derive APLEs for spatial-dependence parameters in the conditional autoregressive (CAR) and spatial moving-average (SMA) models. To accommodate features of these models, the APLE approach must be modified slightly. The efficiency of the APLEs for these two lattice models is evaluated, and heteroskedasticity extensions are provided.

Book Regression Modelling wih Spatial and Spatial Temporal Data

Download or read book Regression Modelling wih Spatial and Spatial Temporal Data written by Robert P. Haining and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modelling Spatial and Spatial-Temporal Data: A Bayesian Approach is aimed at statisticians and quantitative social, economic and public health students and researchers who work with spatial and spatial-temporal data. It assumes a grounding in statistical theory up to the standard linear regression model. The book compares both hierarchical and spatial econometric modelling, providing both a reference and a teaching text with exercises in each chapter. The book provides a fully Bayesian, self-contained, treatment of the underlying statistical theory, with chapters dedicated to substantive applications. The book includes WinBUGS code and R code and all datasets are available online. Part I covers fundamental issues arising when modelling spatial and spatial-temporal data. Part II focuses on modelling cross-sectional spatial data and begins by describing exploratory methods that help guide the modelling process. There are then two theoretical chapters on Bayesian models and a chapter of applications. Two chapters follow on spatial econometric modelling, one describing different models, the other substantive applications. Part III discusses modelling spatial-temporal data, first introducing models for time series data. Exploratory methods for detecting different types of space-time interaction are presented followed by two chapters on the theory of space-time separable (without space-time interaction) and inseparable (with space-time interaction) models. An applications chapter includes: the evaluation of a policy intervention; analysing the temporal dynamics of crime hotspots; chronic disease surveillance; and testing for evidence of spatial spillovers in the spread of an infectious disease. A final chapter suggests some future directions and challenges.

Book Spatial Data Analysis

Download or read book Spatial Data Analysis written by Manfred M. Fischer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The availability of spatial databases and widespread use of geographic information systems has stimulated increasing interest in the analysis and modelling of spatial data. Spatial data analysis focuses on detecting patterns, and on exploring and modelling relationships between them in order to understand the processes responsible for their emergence. In this way, the role of space is emphasised , and our understanding of the working and representation of space, spatial patterns, and processes is enhanced. In applied research, the recognition of the spatial dimension often yields different and more meaningful results and helps to avoid erroneous conclusions. This book aims to provide an introduction into spatial data analysis to graduates interested in applied statistical research. The text has been structured from a data-driven rather than a theory-based perspective, and focuses on those models, methods and techniques which are both accessible and of practical use for graduate students. Exploratory techniques as well as more formal model-based approaches are presented, and both area data and origin-destination flow data are considered.

Book Spatial Regression Models

Download or read book Spatial Regression Models written by Michael Don Ward and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2008-02-29 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assuming no prior knowledge this book is geared toward social science readers, unlike other volumes on this topic. The text illustrates concepts using well known international, comparative, and national examples of spatial regression analysis. Each example is presented alongside relevant data and code, which is also available on a Web site maintained by the authors.

Book Spatial AutoRegression  SAR  Model

Download or read book Spatial AutoRegression SAR Model written by Baris M. Kazar and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explosive growth in the size of spatial databases has highlighted the need for spatial data mining techniques to mine the interesting but implicit spatial patterns within these large databases. This book explores computational structure of the exact and approximate spatial autoregression (SAR) model solutions. Estimation of the parameters of the SAR model using Maximum Likelihood (ML) theory is computationally very expensive because of the need to compute the logarithm of the determinant (log-det) of a large matrix in the log-likelihood function. The second part of the book introduces theory on SAR model solutions. The third part of the book applies parallel processing techniques to the exact SAR model solutions. Parallel formulations of the SAR model parameter estimation procedure based on ML theory are probed using data parallelism with load-balancing techniques. Although this parallel implementation showed scalability up to eight processors, the exact SAR model solution still suffers from high computational complexity and memory requirements. These limitations have led the book to investigate serial and parallel approximate solutions for SAR model parameter estimation. In the fourth and fifth parts of the book, two candidate approximate-semi-sparse solutions of the SAR model based on Taylor's Series expansion and Chebyshev Polynomials are presented. Experiments show that the differences between exact and approximate SAR parameter estimates have no significant effect on the prediction accuracy. In the last part of the book, we developed a new ML based approximate SAR model solution and its variants in the next part of the thesis. The new approximate SAR model solution is called the Gauss-Lanczos approximated SAR model solution. We algebraically rank the error of the Chebyshev Polynomial approximation, Taylor's Series approximation and the Gauss-Lanczos approximation to the solution of the SAR model and its variants. In other words, we established a novel relationship between the error in the log-det term, which is the approximated term in the concentrated log-likelihood function and the error in estimating the SAR parameter for all of the approximate SAR model solutions.

Book Cross Sectional Dependence in Spatial Econometric Models

Download or read book Cross Sectional Dependence in Spatial Econometric Models written by Stefan Klotz and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with spatial dependence in econometric models, offering a work of reference to the applied researcher. In economics, spatial aspects are usually somewhat disregarded, which - as is shown and quantified here - may seriously impair research results. It presents the basic tool kit of treating cross sectional dependence, which typically occurs between spatial observations. The methods are introduced as straightforward enhancement of standard econometric models and methods, placing emphasis on the practical aspects of their features.

Book Non standard Spatial Statistics and Spatial Econometrics

Download or read book Non standard Spatial Statistics and Spatial Econometrics written by Daniel A. Griffith and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite spatial statistics and spatial econometrics both being recent sprouts of the general tree "spatial analysis with measurement"—some may remember the debate after WWII about "theory without measurement" versus "measurement without theory"—several general themes have emerged in the pertaining literature. But exploring selected other fields of possible interest is tantalizing, and this is what the authors intend to report here, hoping that they will suscitate interest in the methodologies exposed and possible further applications of these methodologies. The authors hope that reactions about their publication will ensue, and they would be grateful to reader(s) motivated by some of the research efforts exposed hereafter letting them know about these experiences.

Book New Directions in Spatial Econometrics

Download or read book New Directions in Spatial Econometrics written by Luc Anselin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The promising new directions for research and applications described here include alternative model specifications, estimators and tests for regression models and new perspectives on dealing with spatial effects in models with limited dependent variables and space-time data.

Book Estimation of Spatial Panels

Download or read book Estimation of Spatial Panels written by Lung-fei Lee and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estimation of Spatial Panels provides some recent developments on the specification and estimation of spatial panel models.

Book Practical Handbook of Spatial Statistics

Download or read book Practical Handbook of Spatial Statistics written by Sandra Arlinghaus and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The guidance and special techniques provided in this handbook will allow you to understand and use complex spatial statistical techniques. You will learn how to apply proper spatial analysis techniques and why they are generally different from conventional statistical analyses. Clear and concise information on weighting, aggregation effects, sampling, spatial statistics and GIS, and visualization of spatial dependence is provided. Discussions on specific applications using actual data sets fill obvious gaps in the literature, and coverage of critical research frontiers allows readers to explore current areas of active research.

Book Modelling Spatial and Spatial Temporal Data  A Bayesian Approach

Download or read book Modelling Spatial and Spatial Temporal Data A Bayesian Approach written by Robert P. Haining and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modelling Spatial and Spatial-Temporal Data: A Bayesian Approach is aimed at statisticians and quantitative social, economic and public health students and researchers who work with spatial and spatial-temporal data. It assumes a grounding in statistical theory up to the standard linear regression model. The book compares both hierarchical and spatial econometric modelling, providing both a reference and a teaching text with exercises in each chapter. The book provides a fully Bayesian, self-contained, treatment of the underlying statistical theory, with chapters dedicated to substantive applications. The book includes WinBUGS code and R code and all datasets are available online. Part I covers fundamental issues arising when modelling spatial and spatial-temporal data. Part II focuses on modelling cross-sectional spatial data and begins by describing exploratory methods that help guide the modelling process. There are then two theoretical chapters on Bayesian models and a chapter of applications. Two chapters follow on spatial econometric modelling, one describing different models, the other substantive applications. Part III discusses modelling spatial-temporal data, first introducing models for time series data. Exploratory methods for detecting different types of space-time interaction are presented followed by two chapters on the theory of space-time separable (without space-time interaction) and inseparable (with space-time interaction) models. An applications chapter includes: the evaluation of a policy intervention; analysing the temporal dynamics of crime hotspots; chronic disease surveillance; and testing for evidence of spatial spillovers in the spread of an infectious disease. A final chapter suggests some future directions and challenges.

Book Handbook of Applied Economic Statistics

Download or read book Handbook of Applied Economic Statistics written by Aman Ullah and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1998-02-03 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines theoretical issues, as well as practical developments in statistical inference related to econometric models and analysis. This work offers discussions on such areas as the function of statistics in aggregation, income inequality, poverty, health, spatial econometrics, panel and survey data, bootstrapping and time series.

Book Spatial and Spatio temporal Bayesian Models with R   INLA

Download or read book Spatial and Spatio temporal Bayesian Models with R INLA written by Marta Blangiardo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Bayesian Models with R-INLA provides a much needed, practically oriented & innovative presentation of the combination of Bayesian methodology and spatial statistics. The authors combine an introduction to Bayesian theory and methodology with a focus on the spatial and spatio-temporal models used within the Bayesian framework and a series of practical examples which allow the reader to link the statistical theory presented to real data problems. The numerous examples from the fields of epidemiology, biostatistics and social science all are coded in the R package R-INLA, which has proven to be a valid alternative to the commonly used Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulations

Book Spatial Data Analysis

Download or read book Spatial Data Analysis written by Robert P. Haining and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-17 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial Data Analysis: Theory and Practice, first published in 2003, provides a broad ranging treatment of the field of spatial data analysis. It begins with an overview of spatial data analysis and the importance of location (place, context and space) in scientific and policy related research. Covering fundamental problems concerning how attributes in geographical space are represented to the latest methods of exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial modeling, it is designed to take the reader through the key areas that underpin the analysis of spatial data, providing a platform from which to view and critically appreciate many of the key areas of the field. Parts of the text are accessible to undergraduate and master's level students, but it also contains sufficient challenging material that it will be of interest to geographers, social and economic scientists, environmental scientists and statisticians, whose research takes them into the area of spatial analysis.