nearbyvaries
Nearbyvaries is a conceptual term used in spatial analysis to describe a local measure of how much a variable changes among observations that are geographically close to each other. It is not a universally standardized metric, but rather a generic way to refer to nearby or local variation in a dataset.
For each observation i, with value y_i and location, define a neighborhood N(i) using a radius-based approach
Nearbyvaries is used to identify areas with high or low local variability, which can aid in hotspot
Nearbyvaries is related to local indicators of spatial association (LISA) and local Moran’s I, which assess
The term nearbyvaries is not a fixed, widely standardized statistic. In practice, researchers may use local