Orhun Aydin, Mark V. Janikas, Renato Martins Assunção, Ting-Hwan Lee
{"title":"Probabilistic Regionalization via Evidence Accumulation with Random Spanning Trees as Weak Spatial Representations","authors":"Orhun Aydin, Mark V. Janikas, Renato Martins Assunção, Ting-Hwan Lee","doi":"10.1111/gean.12376","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12376","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Spatial clusters contain biases and artifacts, whether they are defined via statistical algorithms or via expert judgment. Graph-based partitioning of spatial data and associated heuristics gained popularity due to their scalability but can define suboptimal regions due to algorithmic biases such as chaining. Despite the broad literature on deterministic regionalization methods, approaches that quantify regionalization probability are sparse. In this article, we propose a local method to quantify regionalization probabilities for regions defined via graph-based cuts and expert-defined regions. We conceptualize spatial regions as consisting of two types of spatial elements: core and swing. We define three distinct types of regionalization biases that occur in graph-based methods and showcase the use of the proposed method to capture these types of biases. Additionally, we propose an efficient solution to the probabilistic graph-based regionalization problem via performing optimal tree cuts along random spanning trees within an evidence accumulation framework. We perform statistical tests on synthetic data to assess resulting probability maps for varying distinctness of underlying regions and regionalization parameters. Lastly, we showcase the application of our method to define probabilistic ecoregions using climatic and remotely sensed vegetation indicators and apply our method to assign probabilities to the expert-defined Bailey's ecoregions.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"56 2","pages":"328-357"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gean.12376","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48321954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ping Yu Fan, Kwok Pan Chun, Ana Mijic, Mou Leong Tan, Wei Zhai, Omer Yetemen
{"title":"Identifying the Impacts of Land-Use Spatial Patterns on Street-Network Accessibility Using Geospatial Methods","authors":"Ping Yu Fan, Kwok Pan Chun, Ana Mijic, Mou Leong Tan, Wei Zhai, Omer Yetemen","doi":"10.1111/gean.12374","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12374","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While the land use-street network nexus is well acknowledged, evidence for the one-way impacts of land-use patterns on street accessibility is still inadequate. The measurements of land-use patterns and street accessibility lack systematic knowledge. Their empirical correlations also lack geographical variability, constraining site-specific land-use practices. Therefore, this study overcame the aforementioned limitations by examining the two-level spatial models to formulate accessibility-oriented land plans, using a well-developed Chinese city as an example. Firstly, two landscape metrics—Euclidean Nearest-Neighbor Distance (ENN) and Similarity Index (SIMI)—were used to quantify the intra- and inter-land-use configurations, respectively. Both city-level and local accessibility were measured using spatial design network analysis. Performing both ordinary least squares (OLS) and geographically weighted regression (GWR) models, results identified the statistically significant effects of inter-land-use patterns on two-level street accessibility. An exception was that land-use configurations within residential and industrial regions were irrelevant to street accessibility. We also found GWR was a better-fitting model than OLS when estimating locally-varied accessibility, suggesting hierarchical multiscale land-use planning. Overall, locally heterogeneous evidence in this study can substantialize land use-street network interactions and support the decision-making and implementation of place-specific accessibility-oriented land use.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"56 2","pages":"284-302"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gean.12374","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46516062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Peter Kedron, Sarah Bardin, Joseph Holler, Joshua Gilman, Bryant Grady, Megan Seeley, Xin Wang, Wenxin Yang
{"title":"A Framework for Moving Beyond Computational Reproducibility: Lessons from Three Reproductions of Geographical Analyses of COVID-19","authors":"Peter Kedron, Sarah Bardin, Joseph Holler, Joshua Gilman, Bryant Grady, Megan Seeley, Xin Wang, Wenxin Yang","doi":"10.1111/gean.12370","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12370","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite recent calls to make geographical analyses more reproducible, formal attempts to reproduce or replicate published work remain largely absent from the geographic literature. The reproductions of geographic research that do exist typically focus on computational reproducibility—whether results can be recreated using data and code provided by the authors—rather than on evaluating the conclusion and internal validity and evidential value of the original analysis. However, knowing if a study is computationally reproducible is insufficient if the goal of a reproduction is to identify and correct errors in our knowledge. We argue that reproductions of geographic work should focus on assessing whether the findings and claims made in existing empirical studies are well supported by the evidence presented. We aim to facilitate this transition by introducing a model framework for conducting reproduction studies, demonstrating its use, and reporting the findings of three exemplar studies. We present three model reproductions of geographical analyses of COVID-19 based on a common, open access template. Each reproduction attempt is published as an open access repository, complete with pre-analysis plan, data, code, and final report. We find each study to be partially reproducible, but moving past computational reproducibility, our assessments reveal conceptual and methodological concerns that raise questions about the predictive value and the magnitude of the associations presented in each study. Collectively, these reproductions and our template materials offer a practical framework others can use to reproduce and replicate empirical spatial analyses and ultimately facilitate the identification and correction of errors in the geographic literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"56 1","pages":"163-184"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gean.12370","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42399487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Event Pattern Analysis: Peak Detection and Pattern Comparison","authors":"Yukio Sadahiro","doi":"10.1111/gean.12372","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12372","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article proposes two exploratory methods for analyzing event patterns. Events in this article refer to zero-dimensional objects in the spatiotemporal dimension, such as crimes, earthquakes, and traffic accidents. One method detects the peaks in event patterns, evaluates the degree of event concentration at the peaks, and visualizes its spatial variation. Another method evaluates the similarity between different event patterns and visualizes its spatial variation. The methods help us understand events' properties, consider their underlying mechanisms, and permit us to prevent events if they represent undesirable phenomena such as crimes and traffic accidents. The proposed methods are applied to analyze the population distribution in the central area of Tokyo in May 2019. The application revealed the spatial variation of population peaks in this area and the differences in population patterns between different types of days.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"56 1","pages":"143-162"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gean.12372","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41698420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analyzing the Factors that Affect and Predict Employment Density Using Spatial Machine Learning: The Case Study of Seoul, South Korea","authors":"Jane Ahn, Youngsang Kwon","doi":"10.1111/gean.12371","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12371","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There is a regional disparity in the employment density of Seoul. Considering problems such as traffic congestion and jobs-housing imbalance, it is important to understand the spatial pattern of employment density and identify key influencing factors to determine the changes in the future urban spatial structure. This study analyzed employment density in each region of Seoul to derive important predictors. We examined the spatial patterns of employment density and evaluated the effects of spatial and nonspatial factors based on the general model and the spatial heterogeneity model. To predict the distribution of employment density, we used two statistical models (i.e., ordinary least squares regression [OLS] and geographically weighted regression [GWR] models) and two machine learning models (i.e., the random forest [RF] and geographically weighted random forest [GWRF] models). The results showed that the key influencing factors were the number of corporate business companies, number of main and attraction facilities, accessibility to subway stations, areas of commercial and industrial districts, and distance to business districts.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"56 1","pages":"118-142"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47874806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Spatial Autoregressive Panel Data Model with Spatial Moving Average Errors","authors":"Chang Tan, J. Paul Elhorst","doi":"10.1111/gean.12369","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12369","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper advocates the wider use of the spatial autoregressive (AR) panel data model with spatial moving average (MA) errors, individual and time effects, and different spatial weight matrices for each spatial lag. We demonstrate the practical relevance of this model, derive and investigate the asymptotic properties of a simple quasi maximum likelihood within estimator when <math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>N</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ N $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> is large and <math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>T</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>$$ T $$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> is finite, and provide an empirical example explaining military expenditures in 144 countries over the period 1993–2007.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"56 1","pages":"40-61"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gean.12369","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43300895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Temporal Network Kernel Density Estimation","authors":"Jérémy Gelb, Philippe Apparicio","doi":"10.1111/gean.12368","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12368","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Kernel density estimation (KDE) is a widely used method in geography to study concentration of point pattern data. Geographical networks are 1.5 dimensional spaces with specific characteristics, analyzing events occurring on networks (accidents on roads, leakages of pipes, species along rivers, etc.). In the last decade, they required the extension of spatial KDE. Several versions of Network KDE (NKDE) have been proposed, each with their particular advantages and disadvantages, and are now used on a regular basis. However, scant attention has been given to the temporal extension of NKDE (TNKDE). In practice, when the studied events happen at specific time points and are constrained on a network, the methodologies used by geographers tend to overlook either the network or the temporal dimension. Here we propose a TNKDE based on the recent development of NKDE and the product of kernels. We also adapt classical methods of KDE (Diggle's correction, Abramson's adaptive bandwidth and bandwidth selection by leave-one-out maximum likelihood). We also illustrate the method with Montreal road crashes involving a pedestrian between 2016 and 2019.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"56 1","pages":"62-78"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gean.12368","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47491965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gonzalo Peraza-Mues, Roberto Ponce-Lopez, Juan Antonio Muñoz Sanchez, Fernanda Cavazos Alanis, Grissel Olivera Martínez, Carlos Brambila Paz
{"title":"Income Segregation Analysis in Limited-Data Contexts: A Methodology Based on Iterative Proportional Fitting","authors":"Gonzalo Peraza-Mues, Roberto Ponce-Lopez, Juan Antonio Muñoz Sanchez, Fernanda Cavazos Alanis, Grissel Olivera Martínez, Carlos Brambila Paz","doi":"10.1111/gean.12367","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12367","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since the 1950s, researchers in Urban Geography have created multiple instruments for measuring income segregation. However, the computation of such indexes requires the availability of income data and population distribution for small areal units. This approach is problematic for countries and cities where a government's decennial census does not collect or report income data for small-enough areal units to capture income variability within a neighborhood. To address this gap, we use Iterative Proportional Fitting (IPF) to combine neighborhood-level census data with an individual-level income survey data and then estimate small area discrete and continuous income distributions for each small area. We show that it is possible to compute segregation indices based solely on estimated probability distributions without the need to generate a full synthetic population or to obtain integer population counts. We test our empirical method with the case of Mexican cities, for which global and local indexes of segregation are computed with bootstrapped confidence intervals. The major contributions of this article are twofold. First, it uses a method for income-data generation to measure income segregation. Secondly, it demonstrates a linkage between the computation of segregation measures based on probability distributions and the feasibility of computing them directly from the same IPF estimated distributions of income.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"56 1","pages":"79-96"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gean.12367","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47135091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multiplant Location Involving Resource Allocation","authors":"Xin Feng","doi":"10.1111/gean.12366","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12366","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recently, a multisource, raw material allocation form of Weber's classic single-facility location problem was rediscovered and recognized for its significance in contemporary planning and decision-making. This variation of the Weber problem investigates the location of a production plant while permitting the selection of each required raw material source. This article reviews the Weber problem with an emphasis on its extension to incorporate multiple facilities. The only formulated multiplant Weber problem involving resource allocation remains unsolved due to its complexity. An effective approach integrating GIS processing (i.e., the Voronoi diagram and vector-based overlay) with the classic optimization algorithm (i.e., the Weiszfeld algorithm) is developed to address raw material sourcing in the process of siting facilities. The implementation relies entirely on open-source Python packages, making the work reproducible, replicable, and expandable. Application findings demonstrate that the utility and computational efficiency of the proposed method to tackle this challenging problem are superior to those of the most advanced commercial optimization software.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"56 1","pages":"97-117"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42881286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects of Weight Choices on the Power of the Getis–Ord Statistic","authors":"Peter Rogerson","doi":"10.1111/gean.12361","DOIUrl":"10.1111/gean.12361","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When local spatial clustering exists, local statistics are most likely to be significant when their associated weights match the spatial form and extent of the actual clustering. This paper focuses upon the cost of misspecifying the weights of the Getis–Ord statistic. In particular, it is more difficult to reject false null hypotheses when the weights are poorly chosen. I also examine the likelihood of finding spatial clusters when a <i>range</i> of spatial scales is examined, and when the multiple testing that this entails is accounted for. If there is uncertainty regarding the scale of the process, there is little cost in examining a range that includes spatial scales that are larger than the true cluster. Gains in the power to detect significant clustering may be had if the examination of cluster sizes that are clearly too small may be omitted. A small number of Bonferroni-adjusted tests will often provide a slight decline in statistical power, relative to tests that search comprehensively over a range, but may have the benefit of providing a relatively better estimate of the location of change.</p>","PeriodicalId":12533,"journal":{"name":"Geographical Analysis","volume":"56 1","pages":"26-39"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49155762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}