Geographically Weighted Discriminant Analysis
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Hisaji ONO wrote:
Hello. I found following article. Geographically Weighted Discriminant Analysis Chris Brunsdon, Stewart Fotheringham, Martin Charlton(2007): Geographical Analysis, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 376-396, Oct 2007 http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1538-4632.2005.00633.x Can ggwr function in spgwr deal with this method?
Hi, Not as such, no, because it uses glm(), and one would need a multinomial response. You could look at how multinom() in the nnet package could be adapted, it would easier than lda() or qda() in MASS, which do not take a weights= argument. Hope this helps, Roger
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