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Confounded Local Inference: Extending Local Moran Statistics to Handle Confounding

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  • Wolf, Levi John

    (University of Bristol)

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Local geographic statistical analysis has long been of interest to scientists. In many cases, local statistics have been developed to identify spatial outliers --- areas that are markedly dissimilar from their surroundings --- or spatial clusters --- areas of strong similarity. Research into local spatial statistics experienced a step-change in the mid 1990s, which provided a large class of generalized estimators for local statistical analysis. The local Moran statistic is one commonly used local indicator of spatial association, obtained directly from the estimator for the global Moran statistic. However, this statistic (and local indicators more generally) have traditionally been univariate statistics. New developments provide a fully multivariate statistic for local spatial analysis: the multivariate Geary ratio. However, new arguments are needed to obtain a multivariable Moran statistic that can account for exogenous variation in its understanding of the local structure for spatial data. To do this, we return to the Moran Scatterplot as the critical analytical artifact for Moran-style analysis. Extending this concept, we develop a new method directly from a multivariable ``Moran-form'' spatial regression. We show the theoretical and empirical properties of this statistic, and contrast them to existing methods. Finally, we show how its use can change interpretations in an empirical analysis of rent in Bristol, England.

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  • Wolf, Levi John, 2022. "Confounded Local Inference: Extending Local Moran Statistics to Handle Confounding," SocArXiv kz5dq, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:kz5dq
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/kz5dq
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