Incorporating the concept of 'community' into a spatially-weighted local regression analysis

dc.contributor.authorChan, Hon Shing (Richard)
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-01T18:30:49Z
dc.date.available2023-03-01T18:30:49Z
dc.description.abstractLinear regression has long been used to find relationships among various factors. However, when observations are spatially dependent or spatially heterogeneous the results from a linear regression model are distorted. Researchers developed Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) to address these problems. It applies the linear regression model at a local level such that each data point has its own set of parameter estimates based on a distance-decay weighting of ‘neighbouring observations’. This model, however, is susceptible to the influence of ‘outliers’. A Bayesian approach of the GWR method (BGWR) was introduced to address the outlier problem by including various parameter smoothing strategies in the model. This approach provides an opportunity to incorporate the ‘community’ concept in social sciences to account for the community effect that cannot be addressed by the GWR or distance-based BGWR models. This thesis proposed a ‘community-based’ BGWR model that improves the prediction power by reducing the overall prediction errors. It also brings significant improvement in the estimation of regression parameters for certain local areas.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/15016
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dc.subject.disciplineGeodesy and Geomatics Engineering
dc.titleIncorporating the concept of 'community' into a spatially-weighted local regression analysis
dc.typetechnical report

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