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A Forest of Forests

A Spatially Weighted and Computationally Efficient Formulation of Geographical Random Forests

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ID22033369
AuthorsStefanos Georganos (0000-0002-0001-2058, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, corresponding author), Stamatis Kalogirou (0000-0003-1949-6248, Data and Technology for Audit (DATA), European Court of Auditors, 1615 Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Year2022
Volume11
Issue9
Pages471
Publication date2022-08-31
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2220-9964 • E-ISSN: 2220-9964
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/ijgi11090471
OpenAlexW4294325987
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited22

The aim of this paper is to present developments of an advanced geospatial analytics algorithm that improves the prediction power of a random forest regression model while addressing the issue of spatial dependence commonly found in geographical data. We applied the methodology to a simple model of mean household income in the European Union regions to allow easy understanding and reproducibility of the analysis. The results are encouraging and suggest an improvement in the prediction power compared to previous techniques. The algorithm has been implemented in R and is available in the updated version of the SpatialML package in the CRAN repository

Analytics · Business · Cartography · Data mining · Data science · Econometrics · European union · Geographically Weighted Regression · Geography · Geospatial analysis · Machine learning · Random forest · Remote sensing · Spatial analysis · Statistics · Computer Science · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Mathematics · Spatial and Panel Data Analysis

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Citation span2022 - 2026 (5)
Highly citedNo

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