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Spatial Autocorrelation<br />

� First law of geography:<br />

“Everything is related to everything, but nearby things<br />

are more related than distant things.”<br />

� Spatial data tends to be highly auto-correlated:<br />

� The value of property in one location predicts the<br />

property in a nearby location<br />

� This property underlies most spatial data analysis<br />

tasks<br />

<strong>Data</strong> Mining: Principles and Algorithms 4/26/10 3

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