Wpływ wyboru metody klasyfikacji na identyfikację zależności przestrzennych - zastosowanie metody join-count

Justyna Wilk , Michał Bernard Pietrzak , Roger S. Bivand , Tomasz Kossowski

Abstract

Classification is one of the main methods used in regional studies. It examines territorial diversification of a phenomenon, as well as spatial dependence. Its occurrence can indicate a process of spatial clusters creation. The essense of such research is a way of classification and its results. The aim of this paper is to examine the influence of classification method on the analysis of spatial autocorrelation using join-count test. This test, in contradiction to a lot of other methods of spatial statistics, concerns the spatial autocorrelation of qualitative data. It can be applied in the examination of spatial dependence between territorial units which tend to form clusters