test the OLS presumption by a GWR model?

Dear list members,

i have calculated a GWR model and concerning to this, i have a question:
should i test the 'local' gwr output with the standard 'global' test
procedures of a OLS model (e.g. Breusch-Pagan-Test)? If yes, which one?

The authors of the GWR book suggest some tests, but since Wheeler & 
Tiefelsdorf (2005) in Journal of Geographical Systems, I would suggest 
that caution in inference from standard (non-Bayesian) GWR is sensible. 
You could do BP tests on each iteration if the tests are well-defined for 
weighted regression. Most tests are however not set up to do this, for 
example bptest in the lmtest package has no weights= argument.

Roger

best regards
Marco

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