Spatial Regression Analysis Using Eigenvector Spatial Filtering

Daniel A. Griffith is an Ashbel Smith Professor of Geospatial Information Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, affiliated professor in the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida, and adjunct professor in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta. He holds degrees in Mathematics, Statistics, and Geography, and arguably is the inventor of Moran eigenvector spatial filtering. He is a two-time Fulbright Senior Specialist, an AAG Distinguished Research Honors awardee, and an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, UCGIS, AAG, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Statistical Association, Regional Science Association International, and Spatial Econometrics Association. Yongwan Chun is an Associate Professor of Geospatial Information Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. His research interests lie in spatial statistics and GIS, focusing on urban issues, including population movement, environment, health, and crime. His research has been supported by the US National Science Foundation, and the US National Institutes of Health, among others. He has over 50 publications, including books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. Today, Dr. Li’s research is focused on statistics and machine learning. He has published >75 peer reviewed research papers with >1,300 citations of his work.

1. Spatial autocorrelation2. An introduction to spectral analysis3. MESF and linear regression4. Software implementation for constructing an ESF, with special reference to linear regression5. MESF and generalized linear regression6. Modeling spatial heterogeneity with MESF7. Spatial interaction modeling 8. Space-time modeling9. MESF and multivariate statistical analysis10. Concluding comments: Toy dataset implementation demonstrations