Harris, Richard and Singledon, Alex and Grose, Daniel and Brunsdon, Chris and Longley, Paul (2010) Grid-enabling Geographically Weighted Regression: A Case Study of Participation in Higher Education in England. Transactions in GIS, 14 (1). pp. 43-61. ISSN 1467-9671

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Abstract

Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) is a method of spatial statistical analysis used to explore geographical differences in the effect of one or more predictor variables upon a response variable. However, as a form of local analysis, it does not scale well to (especially) large data sets because of the repeated processes of fitting and then comparing multiple regression surfaces. A solution is to make use of developing grid infrastructures, such as that provided by the National Grid Service (NGS) in the UK, treating GWR as an “embarrassing parallel” problem and building on existing software platforms to provide a bridge between an open source implementation of GWR (in R) and the grid system. To demonstrate the approach, we apply it to a case study of participation in Higher Education, using GWR to detect spatial variation in social, cultural and demographic indicators of participation.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Geographically Weighted Regression; Participation in Higher Education in England;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > National Centre for Geocomputation, NCG
Item ID:	5885
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9671.2009.01181.x
Depositing User:	Prof. Chris Brunsdon
Date Deposited:	20 Feb 2015 10:32
Journal or Publication Title:	Transactions in GIS
Publisher:	Blackwell Publishing
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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