Spatial Autocorrelation

Dr. Daniel A. Griffith is an Ashbel Smith Professor Emeritus of Geospatial Information Sciences atthe University of Texas at Dallas, United States; a past affiliated Professor in the College of PublicHealth at the University of South Florida, United States; and an Adjunct Professor in the Departmentof Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada. Hespecializes in spatial statistics, quantitative-urban-economic geography, and urban public health. Dr. Bin Li is a Professor at Central Michigan University, United States, where he previouslyserved as the Chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. Prior to this role, he was a faculty member at the University of Miami. He specializes in Geographic InformationScience, with extensive research and teaching experience in spatial statistics, geographic informationscience, and cartography.

• 1. What is spatial autocorrelation? A conceptualization2. Spatial autocorrelation is everywhere!3. Quantifying spatial autocorrelation: an intuitive approach with few equations4. Reflections on spatial autocorrelation model specifications for beginners5. Geographic distributions: univariate spatial autocorrelation6. Areal associations: multivariate spatial autocorrelation7. Spatial autocorrelation and spatial interaction8. Some spatial autocorrelation final frontiers: a partial future research agenda9. Summary and concluding remarks