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pacman::p_load(sf, spdep, tmap, tidyverse)Hands-on Exercise 2C: Local Measures of Spatial Autocorrelation
1 Overview
In this hands-on exercise, we will learn how to compute Global and Local Measure of Spatial Autocorrelation (GLSA) by using spdep package. By the end to this hands-on exercise, we will be able to:
import geospatial data using appropriate function(s) of sf package,
import csv file using appropriate function of readr package,
perform relational join using appropriate join function of dplyr package,
compute Global Spatial Autocorrelation (GSA) statistics by using appropriate functions of spdep package,
plot Moran scatterplot,
compute and plot spatial correlogram using appropriate function of spdep package.
compute Local Indicator of Spatial Association (LISA) statistics for detecting clusters and outliers by using appropriate functions spdep package;
compute Getis-Ord’s Gi-statistics for detecting hot spot or/and cold spot area by using appropriate functions of spdep package; and
to visualise the analysis output by using tmap package.
2 Getting Started
2.1 The analytical question
In spatial policy, one of the main development objective of the local govenment and planners is to ensure equal distribution of development in the province. Our task in this study, hence, is to apply appropriate spatial statistical methods to discover if development are even distributed geographically. If the answer is No. Then, our next question will be “is there sign of spatial clustering?”. And, if the answer for this question is yes, then our next question will be “where are these clusters?”
In this case study, we are interested to examine the spatial pattern of a selected development indicator (i.e. GDP per capita) of Hunan Provice, People Republic of China.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunan)
2.2 The Study Area and Data
Two data sets will be used in this hands-on exercise, they are:
Hunan province administrative boundary layer at county level. This is a geospatial data set in ESRI shapefile format.
Hunan_2012.csv: This csv file contains selected Hunan’s local development indicators in 2012.
2.3 Setting the Analytical Toolls
Before we get started, we need to ensure that spdep, sf, tmap and tidyverse packages of R are currently installed in our R.
sf is use for importing and handling geospatial data in R,
tidyverse is mainly use for wrangling attribute data in R,
spdep will be used to compute spatial weights, global and local spatial autocorrelation statistics, and
tmap will be used to prepare cartographic quality chropleth map.
The code chunk below is used to perform the following tasks:
creating a package list containing the necessary R packages,
checking if the R packages in the package list have been installed in R,
- if they have yet to be installed, RStudio will installed the missing packages,
launching the packages into R environment.
3 Getting the Data Into R Environment
In this section, we will learn how to bring a geospatial data and its associated attribute table into R environment. The geospatial data is in ESRI shapefile format and the attribute table is in csv fomat.
The code chunk below uses st_read() of sf package to import Hunan shapefile into R. The imported shapefile will be simple features Object of sf.
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hunan <- st_read(dsn = "data/geospatial", layer = "Hunan")Reading layer `Hunan' from data source
`C:\cjh202311\isss624\Hands-on_Ex\Hands-on_Ex2\data\geospatial'
using driver `ESRI Shapefile'
Simple feature collection with 88 features and 7 fields
Geometry type: POLYGON
Dimension: XY
Bounding box: xmin: 108.7831 ymin: 24.6342 xmax: 114.2544 ymax: 30.12812
Geodetic CRS: WGS 84Next, we will import Hunan_2012.csv into R by using read_csv() of readr package. The output is R dataframe class.
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hunan2012 <- read_csv("data/aspatial/Hunan_2012.csv",show_col_types = FALSE)The code chunk below will be used to update the attribute table of hunan’s SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with the attribute fields of hunan2012 dataframe. This is performed by using left_join() of dplyr package.
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hunan <- left_join(hunan,hunan2012) %>% select(1:4, 7, 15)Joining with `by = join_by(County)`Visualising Regional Development Indicator
Now, we are going to prepare a basemap and a choropleth map showing the distribution of GDPPC 2012 by using qtm() of tmap package.
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equal <- tm_shape(hunan) +
tm_fill("GDPPC",
n = 5,
style = "equal") +
tm_borders(alpha = 0.5) +
tm_layout(main.title = "Equal interval classification")
quantile <- tm_shape(hunan) +
tm_fill("GDPPC",
n = 5,
style = "quantile") +
tm_borders(alpha = 0.5) +
tm_layout(main.title = "Equal quantile classification")
tmap_arrange(equal,
quantile,
asp=1,
ncol=2)
4 Global Spatial Autocorrelation
In this section, we will learn how to compute global spatial autocorrelation statistics and to perform spatial complete randomness test for global spatial autocorrelation.
4.1 Computing Contiguity Spatial Weights
Before we can compute the global spatial autocorrelation statistics, we need to construct a spatial weights of the study area. The spatial weights is used to define the neighbourhood relationships between the geographical units (i.e. county) in the study area.
In the code chunk below, poly2nb() of spdep package is used to compute contiguity weight matrices for the study area. This function builds a neighbours list based on regions with contiguous boundaries. If we look at the documentation we will see that we can pass a “queen” argument that takes TRUE or FALSE as options. If we do not specify this argument the default is set to TRUE, that is, if we don’t specify queen = FALSE this function will return a list of first order neighbours using the Queen criteria.
More specifically, the code chunk below is used to compute Queen contiguity weight matrix.
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wm_q <- poly2nb(hunan,
queen=TRUE)
summary(wm_q)Neighbour list object:
Number of regions: 88
Number of nonzero links: 448
Percentage nonzero weights: 5.785124
Average number of links: 5.090909
Link number distribution:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11
2 2 12 16 24 14 11 4 2 1
2 least connected regions:
30 65 with 1 link
1 most connected region:
85 with 11 linksThe summary report above shows that there are 88 area units in Hunan. The most connected area unit has 11 neighbours. There are two area units with only one neighbours.
4.2 Row-standardised weights matrix
Next, we need to assign weights to each neighboring polygon. In our case, each neighboring polygon will be assigned equal weight (style=“W”). This is accomplished by assigning the fraction 1/(#ofneighbors) to each neighboring county then summing the weighted income values. While this is the most intuitive way to summaries the neighbors’ values it has one drawback in that polygons along the edges of the study area will base their lagged values on fewer polygons thus potentially over- or under-estimating the true nature of the spatial autocorrelation in the data. For this example, we’ll stick with the style=“W” option for simplicity’s sake but note that other more robust options are available, notably style=“B”.
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rswm_q <- nb2listw(wm_q,
style="W",
zero.policy = TRUE)
rswm_qCharacteristics of weights list object:
Neighbour list object:
Number of regions: 88
Number of nonzero links: 448
Percentage nonzero weights: 5.785124
Average number of links: 5.090909
Weights style: W
Weights constants summary:
n nn S0 S1 S2
W 88 7744 88 37.86334 365.9147The input of nb2listw() must be an object of class nb. The syntax of the function has two major arguments, namely style and zero.poly.
style can take values “W”, “B”, “C”, “U”, “minmax” and “S”. B is the basic binary coding, W is row standardised (sums over all links to n), C is globally standardised (sums over all links to n), U is equal to C divided by the number of neighbours (sums over all links to unity), while S is the variance-stabilizing coding scheme proposed by Tiefelsdorf et al. 1999, p. 167-168 (sums over all links to n).
If zero policy is set to TRUE, weights vectors of zero length are inserted for regions without neighbour in the neighbours list. These will in turn generate lag values of zero, equivalent to the sum of products of the zero row t(rep(0, length=length(neighbours))) %*% x, for arbitrary numerical vector x of length length(neighbours). The spatially lagged value of x for the zero-neighbour region will then be zero, which may (or may not) be a sensible choice.
4.3 Global Spatial Autocorrelation: Moran’s I
In this section, we will learn how to perform Moran’s I statistics testing by using moran.test() of spdep.
4.4 Maron’s I test
The code chunk below performs Moran’s I statistical testing using moran.test() of spdep.
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set.seed(1234)
bperm= moran.mc(hunan$GDPPC,
listw=rswm_q,
nsim=999,
zero.policy = TRUE,
na.action=na.omit)
bperm
Monte-Carlo simulation of Moran I
data: hunan$GDPPC
weights: rswm_q
number of simulations + 1: 1000
statistic = 0.30075, observed rank = 1000, p-value = 0.001
alternative hypothesis: greaterThe code chunk below performs permutation test for Moran’s I statistic by using moran.mc() of spdep. A total of 1000 simulation will be performed.
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set.seed(1234)
bperm= moran.mc(hunan$GDPPC,
listw=rswm_q,
nsim=999,
zero.policy = TRUE,
na.action=na.omit)
bperm
Monte-Carlo simulation of Moran I
data: hunan$GDPPC
weights: rswm_q
number of simulations + 1: 1000
statistic = 0.30075, observed rank = 1000, p-value = 0.001
alternative hypothesis: greaterIt is always a good practice for us the examine the simulated Moran’s I test statistics in greater detail. This can be achieved by plotting the distribution of the statistical values as a histogram by using the code chunk below.
In the code chunk below hist() and abline() of R Graphics are used.
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mean(bperm$res[1:999])[1] -0.01504572Code
var(bperm$res[1:999])[1] 0.004371574Code
summary(bperm$res[1:999]) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
-0.18339 -0.06168 -0.02125 -0.01505 0.02611 0.27593 Code
hist(bperm$res,
freq=TRUE,
breaks=20,
xlab="Simulated Moran's I")
abline(v=0,
col="red") 
5 Spatial Correlogram
Spatial correlograms are great to examine patterns of spatial autocorrelation in our data or model residuals. They show how correlated are pairs of spatial observations when we increase the distance (lag) between them - they are plots of some index of autocorrelation (Moran’s I or Geary’s c) against distance.Although correlograms are not as fundamental as variograms (a keystone concept of geostatistics), they are very useful as an exploratory and descriptive tool. For this purpose they actually provide richer information than variograms.
5.1 Compute Moran’s I correlogram
In the code chunk below, sp.correlogram() of spdep package is used to compute a 6-lag spatial correlogram of GDPPC. The global spatial autocorrelation used in Moran’s I. The plot() of base Graph is then used to plot the output.
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MI_corr <- sp.correlogram(wm_q,
hunan$GDPPC,
order=6,
method="I",
style="W")
plot(MI_corr)
By plotting the output might not allow us to provide complete interpretation. This is because not all autocorrelation values are statistically significant. Hence, it is important for us to examine the full analysis report by printing out the analysis results as in the code chunk below.
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print(MI_corr)Spatial correlogram for hunan$GDPPC
method: Moran's I
estimate expectation variance standard deviate Pr(I) two sided
1 (88) 0.3007500 -0.0114943 0.0043484 4.7351 2.189e-06 ***
2 (88) 0.2060084 -0.0114943 0.0020962 4.7505 2.029e-06 ***
3 (88) 0.0668273 -0.0114943 0.0014602 2.0496 0.040400 *
4 (88) 0.0299470 -0.0114943 0.0011717 1.2107 0.226015
5 (88) -0.1530471 -0.0114943 0.0012440 -4.0134 5.984e-05 ***
6 (88) -0.1187070 -0.0114943 0.0016791 -2.6164 0.008886 **
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Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 15.2 Compute Geary’s C correlogram and plot
In the code chunk below, sp.correlogram() of spdep package is used to compute a 6-lag spatial correlogram of GDPPC. The global spatial autocorrelation used in Geary’s C. The plot() of base Graph is then used to plot the output.
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GC_corr <- sp.correlogram(wm_q,
hunan$GDPPC,
order=6,
method="C",
style="W")
plot(GC_corr)
Similar to the previous step, we will print out the analysis report by using the code chunk below.
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print(GC_corr)Spatial correlogram for hunan$GDPPC
method: Geary's C
estimate expectation variance standard deviate Pr(I) two sided
1 (88) 0.6907223 1.0000000 0.0073364 -3.6108 0.0003052 ***
2 (88) 0.7630197 1.0000000 0.0049126 -3.3811 0.0007220 ***
3 (88) 0.9397299 1.0000000 0.0049005 -0.8610 0.3892612
4 (88) 1.0098462 1.0000000 0.0039631 0.1564 0.8757128
5 (88) 1.2008204 1.0000000 0.0035568 3.3673 0.0007592 ***
6 (88) 1.0773386 1.0000000 0.0058042 1.0151 0.3100407
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Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 16 Cluster and Outlier Analysis
Local Indicators of Spatial Association or LISA are statistics that evaluate the existence of clusters in the spatial arrangement of a given variable. For instance if we are studying cancer rates among census tracts in a given city local clusters in the rates mean that there are areas that have higher or lower rates than is to be expected by chance alone; that is, the values occurring are above or below those of a random distribution in space.
In this section, we will learn how to apply appropriate Local Indicators for Spatial Association (LISA), especially local Moran’I to detect cluster and/or outlier from GDP per capita 2012 of Hunan Province, PRC.
6.1 Computing local Moran’s I
To compute local Moran’s I, the localmoran() function of spdep will be used. It computes Ii values, given a set of zi values and a listw object providing neighbour weighting information for the polygon associated with the zi values.
The code chunks below are used to compute local Moran’s I of GDPPC2012 at the county level.
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fips <- order(hunan$County)
localMI <- localmoran(hunan$GDPPC, rswm_q)
head(localMI) Ii E.Ii Var.Ii Z.Ii Pr(z != E(Ii))
1 -0.001468468 -2.815006e-05 4.723841e-04 -0.06626904 0.9471636
2 0.025878173 -6.061953e-04 1.016664e-02 0.26266425 0.7928094
3 -0.011987646 -5.366648e-03 1.133362e-01 -0.01966705 0.9843090
4 0.001022468 -2.404783e-07 5.105969e-06 0.45259801 0.6508382
5 0.014814881 -6.829362e-05 1.449949e-03 0.39085814 0.6959021
6 -0.038793829 -3.860263e-04 6.475559e-03 -0.47728835 0.6331568The code chunk below list the content of the local Moran matrix derived by using printCoefmat().
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printCoefmat(data.frame(
localMI[fips,],
row.names=hunan$County[fips]),
check.names=FALSE) Ii E.Ii Var.Ii Z.Ii Pr.z....E.Ii..
Anhua -2.2493e-02 -5.0048e-03 5.8235e-02 -7.2467e-02 0.9422
Anren -3.9932e-01 -7.0111e-03 7.0348e-02 -1.4791e+00 0.1391
Anxiang -1.4685e-03 -2.8150e-05 4.7238e-04 -6.6269e-02 0.9472
Baojing 3.4737e-01 -5.0089e-03 8.3636e-02 1.2185e+00 0.2230
Chaling 2.0559e-02 -9.6812e-04 2.7711e-02 1.2932e-01 0.8971
Changning -2.9868e-05 -9.0010e-09 1.5105e-07 -7.6828e-02 0.9388
Changsha 4.9022e+00 -2.1348e-01 2.3194e+00 3.3590e+00 0.0008
Chengbu 7.3725e-01 -1.0534e-02 2.2132e-01 1.5895e+00 0.1119
Chenxi 1.4544e-01 -2.8156e-03 4.7116e-02 6.8299e-01 0.4946
Cili 7.3176e-02 -1.6747e-03 4.7902e-02 3.4200e-01 0.7324
Dao 2.1420e-01 -2.0824e-03 4.4123e-02 1.0297e+00 0.3032
Dongan 1.5210e-01 -6.3485e-04 1.3471e-02 1.3159e+00 0.1882
Dongkou 5.2918e-01 -6.4461e-03 1.0748e-01 1.6338e+00 0.1023
Fenghuang 1.8013e-01 -6.2832e-03 1.3257e-01 5.1198e-01 0.6087
Guidong -5.9160e-01 -1.3086e-02 3.7003e-01 -9.5104e-01 0.3416
Guiyang 1.8240e-01 -3.6908e-03 3.2610e-02 1.0305e+00 0.3028
Guzhang 2.8466e-01 -8.5054e-03 1.4152e-01 7.7931e-01 0.4358
Hanshou 2.5878e-02 -6.0620e-04 1.0167e-02 2.6266e-01 0.7928
Hengdong 9.9964e-03 -4.9063e-04 6.7742e-03 1.2742e-01 0.8986
Hengnan 2.8064e-02 -3.2160e-04 3.7597e-03 4.6294e-01 0.6434
Hengshan -5.8201e-03 -3.0437e-05 5.1076e-04 -2.5618e-01 0.7978
Hengyang 6.2997e-02 -1.3046e-03 2.1865e-02 4.3486e-01 0.6637
Hongjiang 1.8790e-01 -2.3019e-03 3.1725e-02 1.0678e+00 0.2856
Huarong -1.5389e-02 -1.8667e-03 8.1030e-02 -4.7503e-02 0.9621
Huayuan 8.3772e-02 -8.5569e-04 2.4495e-02 5.4072e-01 0.5887
Huitong 2.5997e-01 -5.2447e-03 1.1077e-01 7.9685e-01 0.4255
Jiahe -1.2431e-01 -3.0550e-03 5.1111e-02 -5.3633e-01 0.5917
Jianghua 2.8651e-01 -3.8280e-03 8.0968e-02 1.0204e+00 0.3076
Jiangyong 2.4337e-01 -2.7082e-03 1.1746e-01 7.1800e-01 0.4728
Jingzhou 1.8270e-01 -8.5106e-04 2.4363e-02 1.1759e+00 0.2396
Jinshi -1.1988e-02 -5.3666e-03 1.1334e-01 -1.9667e-02 0.9843
Jishou -2.8680e-01 -2.6305e-03 4.4028e-02 -1.3543e+00 0.1756
Lanshan 6.3334e-02 -9.6365e-04 2.0441e-02 4.4972e-01 0.6529
Leiyang 1.1581e-02 -1.4948e-04 2.5082e-03 2.3422e-01 0.8148
Lengshuijiang -1.7903e+00 -8.2129e-02 2.1598e+00 -1.1623e+00 0.2451
Li 1.0225e-03 -2.4048e-07 5.1060e-06 4.5260e-01 0.6508
Lianyuan -1.4672e-01 -1.8983e-03 1.9145e-02 -1.0467e+00 0.2952
Liling 1.3774e+00 -1.5097e-02 4.2601e-01 2.1335e+00 0.0329
Linli 1.4815e-02 -6.8294e-05 1.4499e-03 3.9086e-01 0.6959
Linwu -2.4621e-03 -9.0703e-06 1.9258e-04 -1.7676e-01 0.8597
Linxiang 6.5904e-02 -2.9028e-03 2.5470e-01 1.3634e-01 0.8916
Liuyang 3.3688e+00 -7.7502e-02 1.5180e+00 2.7972e+00 0.0052
Longhui 8.0801e-01 -1.1377e-02 1.5538e-01 2.0787e+00 0.0376
Longshan 7.5663e-01 -1.1100e-02 3.1449e-01 1.3690e+00 0.1710
Luxi 1.8177e-01 -2.4855e-03 3.4249e-02 9.9561e-01 0.3194
Mayang 2.1852e-01 -5.8773e-03 9.8049e-02 7.1663e-01 0.4736
Miluo 1.8704e+00 -1.6927e-02 2.7925e-01 3.5715e+00 0.0004
Nan -9.5789e-03 -4.9497e-04 6.8341e-03 -1.0988e-01 0.9125
Ningxiang 1.5607e+00 -7.3878e-02 8.0012e-01 1.8274e+00 0.0676
Ningyuan 2.0910e-01 -7.0884e-03 8.2306e-02 7.5356e-01 0.4511
Pingjiang -9.8964e-01 -2.6457e-03 5.6027e-02 -4.1698e+00 0.0000
Qidong 1.1806e-01 -2.1207e-03 2.4747e-02 7.6396e-01 0.4449
Qiyang 6.1966e-02 -7.3374e-04 8.5743e-03 6.7712e-01 0.4983
Rucheng -3.6992e-01 -8.8999e-03 2.5272e-01 -7.1814e-01 0.4727
Sangzhi 2.5053e-01 -4.9470e-03 6.8000e-02 9.7972e-01 0.3272
Shaodong -3.2659e-02 -3.6592e-05 5.0546e-04 -1.4510e+00 0.1468
Shaoshan 2.1223e+00 -5.0227e-02 1.3668e+00 1.8583e+00 0.0631
Shaoyang 5.9499e-01 -1.1253e-02 1.3012e-01 1.6807e+00 0.0928
Shimen -3.8794e-02 -3.8603e-04 6.4756e-03 -4.7729e-01 0.6332
Shuangfeng 9.2835e-03 -2.2867e-03 3.1516e-02 6.5174e-02 0.9480
Shuangpai 8.0591e-02 -3.1366e-04 8.9838e-03 8.5358e-01 0.3933
Suining 3.7585e-01 -3.5933e-03 4.1870e-02 1.8544e+00 0.0637
Taojiang -2.5394e-01 -1.2395e-03 1.4477e-02 -2.1002e+00 0.0357
Taoyuan 1.4729e-02 -1.2039e-04 8.5103e-04 5.0903e-01 0.6107
Tongdao 4.6482e-01 -6.9870e-03 1.9879e-01 1.0582e+00 0.2900
Wangcheng 4.4220e+00 -1.1067e-01 1.3596e+00 3.8873e+00 0.0001
Wugang 7.1003e-01 -7.8144e-03 1.0710e-01 2.1935e+00 0.0283
Xiangtan 2.4530e-01 -3.6457e-04 3.2319e-03 4.3213e+00 0.0000
Xiangxiang 2.6271e-01 -1.2703e-03 2.1290e-02 1.8092e+00 0.0704
Xiangyin 5.4525e-01 -4.7442e-03 7.9236e-02 1.9539e+00 0.0507
Xinhua 1.1810e-01 -6.2649e-03 8.6001e-02 4.2409e-01 0.6715
Xinhuang 1.5725e-01 -4.1820e-03 3.6648e-01 2.6667e-01 0.7897
Xinning 6.8928e-01 -9.6674e-03 2.0328e-01 1.5502e+00 0.1211
Xinshao 5.7578e-02 -8.5932e-03 1.1769e-01 1.9289e-01 0.8470
Xintian -7.4050e-03 -5.1493e-03 1.0877e-01 -6.8395e-03 0.9945
Xupu 3.2406e-01 -5.7468e-03 5.7735e-02 1.3726e+00 0.1699
Yanling -6.9021e-02 -5.9211e-04 9.9306e-03 -6.8667e-01 0.4923
Yizhang -2.6844e-01 -2.2463e-03 4.7588e-02 -1.2202e+00 0.2224
Yongshun 6.3064e-01 -1.1350e-02 1.8830e-01 1.4795e+00 0.1390
Yongxing 4.3411e-01 -9.0735e-03 1.5088e-01 1.1409e+00 0.2539
You 7.8750e-02 -7.2728e-03 1.2116e-01 2.4714e-01 0.8048
Yuanjiang 2.0004e-04 -1.7760e-04 2.9798e-03 6.9181e-03 0.9945
Yuanling 8.7298e-03 -2.2981e-06 2.3221e-05 1.8121e+00 0.0700
Yueyang 4.1189e-02 -1.9768e-04 2.3113e-03 8.6085e-01 0.3893
Zhijiang 1.0476e-01 -7.8123e-04 1.3100e-02 9.2214e-01 0.3565
Zhongfang -2.2685e-01 -2.1455e-03 3.5927e-02 -1.1855e+00 0.2358
Zhuzhou 3.2864e-01 -5.2432e-04 7.2391e-03 3.8688e+00 0.0001
Zixing -7.6849e-01 -8.8210e-02 9.4057e-01 -7.0144e-01 0.4830Before mapping the local Moran’s I map, it is wise to append the local Moran’s I dataframe (i.e. localMI) onto hunan SpatialPolygonDataFrame. The code chunks below can be used to perform the task. The out SpatialPolygonDataFrame is called hunan.localMI.
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hunan.localMI <- cbind(hunan,localMI) %>%
rename(Pr.Ii = Pr.z....E.Ii..)Using choropleth mapping functions of tmap package, we can plot the local Moran’s I values by using the code chinks below.
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tm_shape(hunan.localMI) +
tm_fill(col = "Ii",
style = "pretty",
palette = "RdBu",
title = "local moran statistics") +
tm_borders(alpha = 0.5)Variable(s) "Ii" contains positive and negative values, so midpoint is set to 0. Set midpoint = NA to show the full spectrum of the color palette.
The choropleth shows there is evidence for both positive and negative Ii values. However, it is useful to consider the p-values for each of these values, as consider above.
The code chunks below produce a choropleth map of Moran’s I p-values by using functions of tmap package.
Code
tm_shape(hunan.localMI) +
tm_fill(col = "Pr.Ii",
breaks=c(-Inf, 0.001, 0.01, 0.05, 0.1, Inf),
palette="-Blues",
title = "local Moran's I p-values") +
tm_borders(alpha = 0.5)
For effective interpretation, it is better to plot both the local Moran’s I values map and its corresponding p-values map next to each other.
The code chunk below will be used to create such visualisation.
Code
localMI.map <- tm_shape(hunan.localMI) +
tm_fill(col = "Ii",
style = "pretty",
title = "local moran statistics") +
tm_borders(alpha = 0.5)
pvalue.map <- tm_shape(hunan.localMI) +
tm_fill(col = "Pr.Ii",
breaks=c(-Inf, 0.001, 0.01, 0.05, 0.1, Inf),
palette="-Blues",
title = "local Moran's I p-values") +
tm_borders(alpha = 0.5)
tmap_arrange(localMI.map, pvalue.map, asp=1, ncol=2)Variable(s) "Ii" contains positive and negative values, so midpoint is set to 0. Set midpoint = NA to show the full spectrum of the color palette.
7 Creating a LISA Cluster Map
The LISA Cluster Map shows the significant locations color coded by type of spatial autocorrelation. The first step before we can generate the LISA cluster map is to plot the Moran scatterplot.
7.1 Plotting Moran scatterplot
The Moran scatterplot is an illustration of the relationship between the values of the chosen attribute at each location and the average value of the same attribute at neighboring locations.
The code chunk below plots the Moran scatterplot of GDPPC 2012 by using moran.plot() of spdep.
Code
nci <- moran.plot(hunan$GDPPC, rswm_q,
labels=as.character(hunan$County),
xlab="GDPPC 2012",
ylab="Spatially Lag GDPPC 2012")
7.2 Plotting Moran scatterplot with standardised variable
First we will use scale() to centers and scales the variable. Here centering is done by subtracting the mean (omitting NAs) the corresponding columns, and scaling is done by dividing the (centered) variable by their standard deviations.
Code
hunan$Z.GDPPC <- scale(hunan$GDPPC) %>%
as.vector The as.vector() added to the end is to make sure that the data type we get out of this is a vector, that map neatly into out dataframe.
Now, we are ready to plot the Moran scatterplot again by using the code chunk below.
Code
nci2 <- moran.plot(hunan$Z.GDPPC, rswm_q,
labels=as.character(hunan$County),
xlab="z-GDPPC 2012",
ylab="Spatially Lag z-GDPPC 2012")
7.3 Preparing LISA map classes
The code chunks below show the steps to prepare a LISA cluster map.
Code
quadrant <- vector(mode="numeric",length=nrow(localMI)) Next, derives the spatially lagged variable of interest (i.e. GDPPC) and centers the spatially lagged variable around its mean.
Code
hunan$lag_GDPPC <- lag.listw(rswm_q, hunan$GDPPC)
DV <- hunan$lag_GDPPC - mean(hunan$lag_GDPPC) This is follow by centering the local Moran’s around the mean.
Code
LM_I <- localMI[,1] - mean(localMI[,1]) Next, we will set a statistical significance level for the local Moran.
Code
signif <- 0.05 These four command lines define the low-low (1), low-high (2), high-low (3) and high-high (4) categories.
Code
quadrant[DV <0 & LM_I>0] <- 1
quadrant[DV >0 & LM_I<0] <- 2
quadrant[DV <0 & LM_I<0] <- 3
quadrant[DV >0 & LM_I>0] <- 4 Lastly, places non-significant Moran in the category 0.
Code
quadrant[localMI[,5]>signif] <- 0In fact, we can combined all the steps into one single code chunk as shown below:
Code
quadrant <- vector(mode="numeric",length=nrow(localMI))
hunan$lag_GDPPC <- lag.listw(rswm_q, hunan$GDPPC)
DV <- hunan$lag_GDPPC - mean(hunan$lag_GDPPC)
LM_I <- localMI[,1]
signif <- 0.05
quadrant[DV <0 & LM_I>0] <- 1
quadrant[DV >0 & LM_I<0] <- 2
quadrant[DV <0 & LM_I<0] <- 3
quadrant[DV >0 & LM_I>0] <- 4
quadrant[localMI[,5]>signif] <- 07.4 Plotting LISA map
Now, we can build the LISA map by using the code chunks below.
Code
hunan.localMI$quadrant <- quadrant
colors <- c("#ffffff", "#2c7bb6", "#abd9e9", "#fdae61", "#d7191c")
clusters <- c("insignificant", "low-low", "low-high", "high-low", "high-high")
tm_shape(hunan.localMI) +
tm_fill(col = "quadrant",
style = "cat",
palette = colors[c(sort(unique(quadrant)))+1],
labels = clusters[c(sort(unique(quadrant)))+1],
popup.vars = c("")) +
tm_view(set.zoom.limits = c(11,17)) +
tm_borders(alpha=0.5)
For effective interpretation, it is better to plot both the local Moran’s I values map and its corresponding p-values map next to each other.
The code chunk below will be used to create such visualisation.
Code
gdppc <- qtm(hunan, "GDPPC")
hunan.localMI$quadrant <- quadrant
colors <- c("#ffffff", "#2c7bb6", "#abd9e9", "#fdae61", "#d7191c")
clusters <- c("insignificant", "low-low", "low-high", "high-low", "high-high")
LISAmap <- tm_shape(hunan.localMI) +
tm_fill(col = "quadrant",
style = "cat",
palette = colors[c(sort(unique(quadrant)))+1],
labels = clusters[c(sort(unique(quadrant)))+1],
popup.vars = c("")) +
tm_view(set.zoom.limits = c(11,17)) +
tm_borders(alpha=0.5)
tmap_arrange(gdppc, LISAmap,
asp=1, ncol=2)
We can also include the local Moran’s I map and p-value map as shown below for easy comparison.
Code
localMI.map <- tm_shape(hunan.localMI) +
tm_fill(col = "Ii",
style = "pretty",
title = "local moran statistics") +
tm_borders(alpha = 0.5)
pvalue.map <- tm_shape(hunan.localMI) +
tm_fill(col = "Pr.Ii",
breaks=c(-Inf, 0.001, 0.01, 0.05, 0.1, Inf),
palette="-Blues",
title = "local Moran's I p-values") +
tm_borders(alpha = 0.5)
tmap_arrange(localMI.map, pvalue.map, asp=1, ncol=2)Variable(s) "Ii" contains positive and negative values, so midpoint is set to 0. Set midpoint = NA to show the full spectrum of the color palette.
8 Hot Spot and Cold Spot Area Analysis
Beside detecting cluster and outliers, localised spatial statistics can be also used to detect hot spot and/or cold spot areas.
The term ‘hot spot’ has been used generically across disciplines to describe a region or value that is higher relative to its surroundings (Lepers et al 2005, Aben et al 2012, Isobe et al 2015).
8.1 Getis and Ord’s G-Statistics
An alternative spatial statistics to detect spatial anomalies is the Getis and Ord’s G-statistics (Getis and Ord, 1972; Ord and Getis, 1995). It looks at neighbours within a defined proximity to identify where either high or low values clutser spatially. Here, statistically significant hot-spots are recognised as areas of high values where other areas within a neighbourhood range also share high values too.
The analysis consists of three steps:
Deriving spatial weight matrix
Computing Gi statistics
Mapping Gi statistics
8.2 Deriving distance-based weight matrix
First, we need to define a new set of neighbours. Whist the spatial autocorrelation considered units which shared borders, for Getis-Ord we are defining neighbours based on distance.
There are two type of distance-based proximity matrix, they are:
fixed distance weight matrix;
adaptive distance weight matrix.
We will need points to associate with each polygon before we can make our connectivity graph. It will be a little more complicated than just running st_centroid() on the sf object: us.bound. We need the coordinates in a separate data frame for this to work. To do this we will use a mapping function. The mapping function applies a given function to each element of a vector and returns a vector of the same length. Our input vector will be the geometry column of us.bound. Our function will be st_centroid(). We will be using map_dbl variation of map from the purrr package. For more documentation, check out map documentation
To get our longitude values we map the st_centroid() function over the geometry column of us.bound and access the longitude value through double bracket notation [[]] and 1. This allows us to get only the longitude, which is the first value in each centroid.
Code
longitude <- map_dbl(hunan$geometry, ~st_centroid(.x)[[1]])We do the same for latitude with one key difference. We access the second value per each centroid with [[2]].
Code
latitude <- map_dbl(hunan$geometry, ~st_centroid(.x)[[2]])Now that we have latitude and longitude, we use cbind to put longitude and latitude into the same object.
Code
coords <- cbind(longitude, latitude)Firstly, we need to determine the upper limit for distance band by using the steps below:
Return a matrix with the indices of points belonging to the set of the k nearest neighbours of each other by using knearneigh() of spdep.
Convert the knn object returned by knearneigh() into a neighbours list of class nb with a list of integer vectors containing neighbour region number ids by using knn2nb().
Return the length of neighbour relationship edges by using nbdists() of spdep. The function returns in the units of the coordinates if the coordinates are projected, in km otherwise.
Remove the list structure of the returned object by using unlist().
Code
#coords <- coordinates(hunan)
k1 <- knn2nb(knearneigh(coords))
k1dists <- unlist(nbdists(k1, coords, longlat = TRUE))
summary(k1dists) Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max.
24.79 32.57 38.01 39.07 44.52 61.79 The summary report shows that the largest first nearest neighbour distance is 61.79 km, so using this as the upper threshold gives certainty that all units will have at least one neighbour.
Now, we will compute the distance weight matrix by using dnearneigh() as shown in the code chunk below.
Code
wm_d62 <- dnearneigh(coords, 0, 62, longlat = TRUE)
wm_d62Neighbour list object:
Number of regions: 88
Number of nonzero links: 324
Percentage nonzero weights: 4.183884
Average number of links: 3.681818 Next, nb2listw() is used to convert the nb object into spatial weights object.
Code
wm62_lw <- nb2listw(wm_d62, style = 'B')
summary(wm62_lw)Characteristics of weights list object:
Neighbour list object:
Number of regions: 88
Number of nonzero links: 324
Percentage nonzero weights: 4.183884
Average number of links: 3.681818
Link number distribution:
1 2 3 4 5 6
6 15 14 26 20 7
6 least connected regions:
6 15 30 32 56 65 with 1 link
7 most connected regions:
21 28 35 45 50 52 82 with 6 links
Weights style: B
Weights constants summary:
n nn S0 S1 S2
B 88 7744 324 648 5440The output spatial weights object is called wm62_lw.
8.3 Computing adaptive distance weight matrix
One of the characteristics of fixed distance weight matrix is that more densely settled areas (usually the urban areas) tend to have more neighbours and the less densely settled areas (usually the rural counties) tend to have lesser neighbours. Having many neighbours smoothes the neighbour relationship across more neighbours.
It is possible to control the numbers of neighbours directly using k-nearest neighbours, either accepting asymmetric neighbours or imposing symmetry as shown in the code chunk below.
Code
knn <- knn2nb(knearneigh(coords, k=8))
knnNeighbour list object:
Number of regions: 88
Number of nonzero links: 704
Percentage nonzero weights: 9.090909
Average number of links: 8
Non-symmetric neighbours listNext, nb2listw() is used to convert the nb object into spatial weights object.
Code
knn_lw <- nb2listw(knn, style = 'B')
summary(knn_lw)Characteristics of weights list object:
Neighbour list object:
Number of regions: 88
Number of nonzero links: 704
Percentage nonzero weights: 9.090909
Average number of links: 8
Non-symmetric neighbours list
Link number distribution:
8
88
88 least connected regions:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 with 8 links
88 most connected regions:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 with 8 links
Weights style: B
Weights constants summary:
n nn S0 S1 S2
B 88 7744 704 1300 230149 Computing Gi statistics
9.1 Gi statistics using fixed distance
Code
fips <- order(hunan$County)
gi.fixed <- localG(hunan$GDPPC, wm62_lw)
gi.fixed [1] 0.436075843 -0.265505650 -0.073033665 0.413017033 0.273070579
[6] -0.377510776 2.863898821 2.794350420 5.216125401 0.228236603
[11] 0.951035346 -0.536334231 0.176761556 1.195564020 -0.033020610
[16] 1.378081093 -0.585756761 -0.419680565 0.258805141 0.012056111
[21] -0.145716531 -0.027158687 -0.318615290 -0.748946051 -0.961700582
[26] -0.796851342 -1.033949773 -0.460979158 -0.885240161 -0.266671512
[31] -0.886168613 -0.855476971 -0.922143185 -1.162328599 0.735582222
[36] -0.003358489 -0.967459309 -1.259299080 -1.452256513 -1.540671121
[41] -1.395011407 -1.681505286 -1.314110709 -0.767944457 -0.192889342
[46] 2.720804542 1.809191360 -1.218469473 -0.511984469 -0.834546363
[51] -0.908179070 -1.541081516 -1.192199867 -1.075080164 -1.631075961
[56] -0.743472246 0.418842387 0.832943753 -0.710289083 -0.449718820
[61] -0.493238743 -1.083386776 0.042979051 0.008596093 0.136337469
[66] 2.203411744 2.690329952 4.453703219 -0.340842743 -0.129318589
[71] 0.737806634 -1.246912658 0.666667559 1.088613505 -0.985792573
[76] 1.233609606 -0.487196415 1.626174042 -1.060416797 0.425361422
[81] -0.837897118 -0.314565243 0.371456331 4.424392623 -0.109566928
[86] 1.364597995 -1.029658605 -0.718000620
attr(,"internals")
Gi E(Gi) V(Gi) Z(Gi) Pr(z != E(Gi))
[1,] 0.064192949 0.05747126 2.375922e-04 0.436075843 6.627817e-01
[2,] 0.042300020 0.04597701 1.917951e-04 -0.265505650 7.906200e-01
[3,] 0.044961480 0.04597701 1.933486e-04 -0.073033665 9.417793e-01
[4,] 0.039475779 0.03448276 1.461473e-04 0.413017033 6.795941e-01
[5,] 0.049767939 0.04597701 1.927263e-04 0.273070579 7.847990e-01
[6,] 0.008825335 0.01149425 4.998177e-05 -0.377510776 7.057941e-01
[7,] 0.050807266 0.02298851 9.435398e-05 2.863898821 4.184617e-03
[8,] 0.083966739 0.04597701 1.848292e-04 2.794350420 5.200409e-03
[9,] 0.115751554 0.04597701 1.789361e-04 5.216125401 1.827045e-07
[10,] 0.049115587 0.04597701 1.891013e-04 0.228236603 8.194623e-01
[11,] 0.045819180 0.03448276 1.420884e-04 0.951035346 3.415864e-01
[12,] 0.049183846 0.05747126 2.387633e-04 -0.536334231 5.917276e-01
[13,] 0.048429181 0.04597701 1.924532e-04 0.176761556 8.596957e-01
[14,] 0.034733752 0.02298851 9.651140e-05 1.195564020 2.318667e-01
[15,] 0.011262043 0.01149425 4.945294e-05 -0.033020610 9.736582e-01
[16,] 0.065131196 0.04597701 1.931870e-04 1.378081093 1.681783e-01
[17,] 0.027587075 0.03448276 1.385862e-04 -0.585756761 5.580390e-01
[18,] 0.029409313 0.03448276 1.461397e-04 -0.419680565 6.747188e-01
[19,] 0.061466754 0.05747126 2.383385e-04 0.258805141 7.957856e-01
[20,] 0.057656917 0.05747126 2.371303e-04 0.012056111 9.903808e-01
[21,] 0.066518379 0.06896552 2.820326e-04 -0.145716531 8.841452e-01
[22,] 0.045599896 0.04597701 1.928108e-04 -0.027158687 9.783332e-01
[23,] 0.030646753 0.03448276 1.449523e-04 -0.318615290 7.500183e-01
[24,] 0.035635552 0.04597701 1.906613e-04 -0.748946051 4.538897e-01
[25,] 0.032606647 0.04597701 1.932888e-04 -0.961700582 3.362000e-01
[26,] 0.035001352 0.04597701 1.897172e-04 -0.796851342 4.255374e-01
[27,] 0.012746354 0.02298851 9.812587e-05 -1.033949773 3.011596e-01
[28,] 0.061287917 0.06896552 2.773884e-04 -0.460979158 6.448136e-01
[29,] 0.014277403 0.02298851 9.683314e-05 -0.885240161 3.760271e-01
[30,] 0.009622875 0.01149425 4.924586e-05 -0.266671512 7.897221e-01
[31,] 0.014258398 0.02298851 9.705244e-05 -0.886168613 3.755267e-01
[32,] 0.005453443 0.01149425 4.986245e-05 -0.855476971 3.922871e-01
[33,] 0.043283712 0.05747126 2.367109e-04 -0.922143185 3.564539e-01
[34,] 0.020763514 0.03448276 1.393165e-04 -1.162328599 2.451020e-01
[35,] 0.081261843 0.06896552 2.794398e-04 0.735582222 4.619850e-01
[36,] 0.057419907 0.05747126 2.338437e-04 -0.003358489 9.973203e-01
[37,] 0.013497133 0.02298851 9.624821e-05 -0.967459309 3.333145e-01
[38,] 0.019289310 0.03448276 1.455643e-04 -1.259299080 2.079223e-01
[39,] 0.025996272 0.04597701 1.892938e-04 -1.452256513 1.464303e-01
[40,] 0.016092694 0.03448276 1.424776e-04 -1.540671121 1.233968e-01
[41,] 0.035952614 0.05747126 2.379439e-04 -1.395011407 1.630124e-01
[42,] 0.031690963 0.05747126 2.350604e-04 -1.681505286 9.266481e-02
[43,] 0.018750079 0.03448276 1.433314e-04 -1.314110709 1.888090e-01
[44,] 0.015449080 0.02298851 9.638666e-05 -0.767944457 4.425202e-01
[45,] 0.065760689 0.06896552 2.760533e-04 -0.192889342 8.470456e-01
[46,] 0.098966900 0.05747126 2.326002e-04 2.720804542 6.512325e-03
[47,] 0.085415780 0.05747126 2.385746e-04 1.809191360 7.042128e-02
[48,] 0.038816536 0.05747126 2.343951e-04 -1.218469473 2.230456e-01
[49,] 0.038931873 0.04597701 1.893501e-04 -0.511984469 6.086619e-01
[50,] 0.055098610 0.06896552 2.760948e-04 -0.834546363 4.039732e-01
[51,] 0.033405005 0.04597701 1.916312e-04 -0.908179070 3.637836e-01
[52,] 0.043040784 0.06896552 2.829941e-04 -1.541081516 1.232969e-01
[53,] 0.011297699 0.02298851 9.615920e-05 -1.192199867 2.331829e-01
[54,] 0.040968457 0.05747126 2.356318e-04 -1.075080164 2.823388e-01
[55,] 0.023629663 0.04597701 1.877170e-04 -1.631075961 1.028743e-01
[56,] 0.006281129 0.01149425 4.916619e-05 -0.743472246 4.571958e-01
[57,] 0.063918654 0.05747126 2.369553e-04 0.418842387 6.753313e-01
[58,] 0.070325003 0.05747126 2.381374e-04 0.832943753 4.048765e-01
[59,] 0.025947288 0.03448276 1.444058e-04 -0.710289083 4.775249e-01
[60,] 0.039752578 0.04597701 1.915656e-04 -0.449718820 6.529132e-01
[61,] 0.049934283 0.05747126 2.334965e-04 -0.493238743 6.218439e-01
[62,] 0.030964195 0.04597701 1.920248e-04 -1.083386776 2.786368e-01
[63,] 0.058129184 0.05747126 2.343319e-04 0.042979051 9.657182e-01
[64,] 0.046096514 0.04597701 1.932637e-04 0.008596093 9.931414e-01
[65,] 0.012459080 0.01149425 5.008051e-05 0.136337469 8.915545e-01
[66,] 0.091447733 0.05747126 2.377744e-04 2.203411744 2.756574e-02
[67,] 0.049575872 0.02298851 9.766513e-05 2.690329952 7.138140e-03
[68,] 0.107907212 0.04597701 1.933581e-04 4.453703219 8.440175e-06
[69,] 0.019616151 0.02298851 9.789454e-05 -0.340842743 7.332220e-01
[70,] 0.032923393 0.03448276 1.454032e-04 -0.129318589 8.971056e-01
[71,] 0.030317663 0.02298851 9.867859e-05 0.737806634 4.606320e-01
[72,] 0.019437582 0.03448276 1.455870e-04 -1.246912658 2.124295e-01
[73,] 0.055245460 0.04597701 1.932838e-04 0.666667559 5.049845e-01
[74,] 0.074278054 0.05747126 2.383538e-04 1.088613505 2.763244e-01
[75,] 0.013269580 0.02298851 9.719982e-05 -0.985792573 3.242349e-01
[76,] 0.049407829 0.03448276 1.463785e-04 1.233609606 2.173484e-01
[77,] 0.028605749 0.03448276 1.455139e-04 -0.487196415 6.261191e-01
[78,] 0.039087662 0.02298851 9.801040e-05 1.626174042 1.039126e-01
[79,] 0.031447120 0.04597701 1.877464e-04 -1.060416797 2.889550e-01
[80,] 0.064005294 0.05747126 2.359641e-04 0.425361422 6.705732e-01
[81,] 0.044606529 0.05747126 2.357330e-04 -0.837897118 4.020885e-01
[82,] 0.063700493 0.06896552 2.801427e-04 -0.314565243 7.530918e-01
[83,] 0.051142205 0.04597701 1.933560e-04 0.371456331 7.102977e-01
[84,] 0.102121112 0.04597701 1.610278e-04 4.424392623 9.671399e-06
[85,] 0.021901462 0.02298851 9.843172e-05 -0.109566928 9.127528e-01
[86,] 0.064931813 0.04597701 1.929430e-04 1.364597995 1.723794e-01
[87,] 0.031747344 0.04597701 1.909867e-04 -1.029658605 3.031703e-01
[88,] 0.015893319 0.02298851 9.765131e-05 -0.718000620 4.727569e-01
attr(,"cluster")
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attr(,"gstari")
[1] FALSE
attr(,"call")
localG(x = hunan$GDPPC, listw = wm62_lw)
attr(,"class")
[1] "localG"The output of localG() is a vector of G or Gstar values, with attributes “gstari” set to TRUE or FALSE, “call” set to the function call, and class “localG”.
The Gi statistics is represented as a Z-score. Greater values represent a greater intensity of clustering and the direction (positive or negative) indicates high or low clusters.
Next, we will join the Gi values to their corresponding hunan sf data frame by using the code chunk below.
Code
hunan.gi <- cbind(hunan, as.matrix(gi.fixed)) %>% rename(gstat_fixed = as.matrix.gi.fixed.)In fact, the code chunk above performs three tasks. First, it convert the output vector (i.e. gi.fixed) into r matrix object by using as.matrix(). Next, cbind() is used to join hunan@data and gi.fixed matrix to produce a new SpatialPolygonDataFrame called hunan.gi. Lastly, the field name of the gi values is renamed to gstat_fixed by using rename().
9.2 Mapping Gi values with fixed distance weights
The code chunk below shows the functions used to map the Gi values derived using fixed distance weight matrix.
Code
gdppc <- qtm(hunan, "GDPPC")
Gimap <-tm_shape(hunan.gi) +
tm_fill(col = "gstat_fixed",
style = "pretty",
palette="-RdBu",
title = "local Gi") +
tm_borders(alpha = 0.5)
tmap_arrange(gdppc, Gimap, asp=1, ncol=2)Variable(s) "gstat_fixed" contains positive and negative values, so midpoint is set to 0. Set midpoint = NA to show the full spectrum of the color palette.
9.3 Gi statistics using adaptive distance
The code chunk below are used to compute the Gi values for GDPPC2012 by using an adaptive distance weight matrix (i.e knb_lw).
Code
fips <- order(hunan$County)
gi.adaptive <- localG(hunan$GDPPC, knn_lw)
hunan.gi <- cbind(hunan, as.matrix(gi.adaptive)) %>%
rename(gstat_adaptive = as.matrix.gi.adaptive.)9.4 Mapping Gi values with adaptive distance weights
It is time for us to visualise the locations of hot spot and cold spot areas. The choropleth mapping functions of tmap package will be used to map the Gi values.
The code chunk below shows the functions used to map the Gi values derived using fixed distance weight matrix.
Code
gdppc<- qtm(hunan, "GDPPC")
Gimap <- tm_shape(hunan.gi) +
tm_fill(col = "gstat_adaptive",
style = "pretty",
palette="-RdBu",
title = "local Gi") +
tm_borders(alpha = 0.5)
tmap_arrange(gdppc,
Gimap,
asp=1,
ncol=2)Variable(s) "gstat_adaptive" contains positive and negative values, so midpoint is set to 0. Set midpoint = NA to show the full spectrum of the color palette.