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The importance of the arrangement of areal units was established in the preceding chapter. The configuration of areal units furnishes an infrastructure upon which autocorrelation mechanisms operate; moreover, it provides the underlying ordering that leads to a violation of the assumption of independent observations. As such it tells how the ‘grapes’ of the modified urn model mentioned earlier are clustered together. In addition, through the notion of random partitionings, this feature of areal units can be linked to one of the primary justifications for treating spatial data within a sampling context. It appears in both the indices of spatial autocorrelation and the variance-covariance terms of spatial autoregressive models.
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Griffith, D.A. (1988). Areal Unit Configuration and Locational Information. In: Advanced Spatial Statistics. Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2758-2_3
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