Geographically Varying Coefficient Regression: GWR-Exit and GAM-On? (Short Paper)

This paper describes initial work exploring two spatially varying coefficient models: multi-scale GWR and GAM Gaussian Process spline parameterised by observation location. Both approaches accommodate process spatial heterogeneity and both generate outputs that can be mapped indicating the nature of the process heterogeneity. However the nature of the process heterogeneity they each describe are very different. This suggests that the underlying semantics of such models need to be considered in order to refine the specificity of the questions that are asked of data: simply seeking to understand process spatial heterogeneity may be too semantically coarse.