Tool Name	Global Spatial Autocorrelation for Shapes
Tool ID	16
Library ID	statistics_regression
Version	1.0
Author(s)	O.Conrad (c) 2023

Description

Calculates Moran's I and Geary's C for the selected variable of the input shapes. For geometries other than single points (i.e. multi-points, lines, polygons) the centroids are used as location.

References

Lloyd, C.D. (2011): Local Models for Spatial Analysis. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2nd Edition, 336p.

Parameters

Name	Type	Identifier	Description	Constraints
Input
Shapes	shapes, input	SHAPES
Output
Summary	table, output	SUMMARY
Options
Variable	table field	VARIABLE
Weighting Function	choice	DW_WEIGHTING		Available Choices: [0] no distance weighting [1] inverse distance to a power [2] exponential [3] gaussian Default: 3
Power	floating point number	DW_IDW_POWER		Minimum: 0.000000 Default: 1.000000
Bandwidth	floating point number	DW_BANDWIDTH	Bandwidth for exponential and Gaussian weighting	Minimum: 0.000000 Default: 1.000000
Search Range	choice	SEARCH_RANGE		Available Choices: [0] local [1] global Default: 1
Maximum Search Distance	floating point number	SEARCH_RADIUS	local maximum search distance given in map units	Minimum: 0.000000 Default: 1000.000000
Number of Points	choice	SEARCH_POINTS_ALL		Available Choices: [0] maximum number of nearest points [1] all points within search distance Default: 1
Maximum	integer number	SEARCH_POINTS_MAX	maximum number of nearest points	Minimum: 1 Default: 20