Local spatial interaction modelling based on the geographically weighted regression approach
Local spatial interaction modelling based on the geographically weighted regression approach
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-017-2296-4_4
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发表时间:
2001
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2.7
通讯作者:
T. Nakaya
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作者:
T. Nakaya
One of the recent major trends in spatial analysis is local modelling by which spatial analysts examine local properties in geographical phenomena (Fotheringham, 1997). Indeed, spatial processes tend to vary over space due to different geographical contexts so that spatial non-stationarity emerges (Jones III and Hanham, 1995). In such cases, global models that postulate universally acceptable properties fail to capture the real phenomena under study. We could say that inferences of local incidence rates in disease mapping are the simplest form of local modelling (Openshaw et al., 1987, Nakaya, 2000). As for more complicated association analyses, Casetti's (1972) expansion method is popular to model explicitly the property of non-stationarity in regression analysis (eg Casetti, 1990). According to the method, we can specify geographical drifts of regression parameters by polynomial or harmonic expansion series of locational variables. Recently, the Newcastle school (Brunsdon et al., 1996, Fotheringham et al., 1998) has developed a more generalised local regression methodology, called geographically weighted regression (GWR). The approach estimates local regression coefficients with a moving weighting kernel. The aim of this paper is to develop the way in which the GWR approach is applied to spatial interaction modelling and to present an empirical example applied to the migration flows in Japan during the latter half of 1980. Although spatial interaction models are regarded as basic components of a lot of spatial mathematical models, their poor ability to describe the observed flows has been pointed out (Openshaw, 1976, 1979). There are many considerations indicating that the non-stationarities in the spatial interaction process contribute to this problem. Origin or destination specific models are classic approaches that assume the effect of the explanatory variables in gravity models may differ between origins or destinations. Lovett and Flowerdew (1989) show an example to incorporate many origin or destination specific explanatory variables in Poisson spatial interaction modelling. Fitting models separately to relative subsets of flows is an effective way to infer parameter drifts depending on different origin and destination pairs reflecting different underlying processes. For example, longer and shorter distance migrations would be influenced mainly by employment factors and by housing factors, respectively. Gordon (1991) advocates multi-stream modelling in which gravity models are separately calibrated for each subset of migration data grouped by distances between origins