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test of spatial dependence??

8 messages · Xu Yuan, David Farrar, Scionforbai +2 more

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If you don't have coordinates of your data, as I understand here,
there's nothing you can do, of course ...
If you have coordinates, you should compute the variogram -and/or the
spatial covariance- of your data and look if they are meaningful.
Hint: read a book about geostatistics.
So, to me there is a light difference, but it's really "for advanced
users", and maybe questionable.

Bye.
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Thanks David and Milton for replies. No, I don't have the coordiates.
In other words, my data are not point data. But I think there is a way
to test of spatial dependence for areal data or lattice data. In this
case, the variable of interest is typically the average value of an
area instead of a point. Do you how to do this?

 Thank you.
 Xu
On 12/6/06, Milton Cezar Ribeiro <milton_ruser at yahoo.com.br> wrote:
O Yahoo! est? de cara nova. Venha conferir!
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On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Xu Yuan wrote:

            
But do you know where the areas are in relation to each other? Does the 
spatialCovariance package help?

Roger