Examining the influences of air quality in China's cities using multi‐scale geographically weighted regression

Fotheringham, A. S., Yue, H. and Li, Z. (2019) Examining the influences of air quality in China's cities using multi‐scale geographically weighted regression. Transactions in GIS, 23(6), pp. 1444-1464. (doi: 10.1111/tgis.12580)

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Abstract

This study evaluates the influences of air pollution in China using a recently proposed model—multi-scale geographically weighted regression (MGWR). First, we review previous research on the determinants of air quality. Then, we explain the MGWR model, together with two global models: ordinary least squares (OLS) and OLS containing a spatial lag variable (OLSL) and a commonly used local model: geographically weighted regression (GWR). To detect and account for any variation of the spatial autocorrelation of air pollution over space, we construct two extra local models which we call GWR with lagged dependent variable (GWRL) and MGWR with lagged dependent variable (MGWRL) by including the lagged form of the dependent variable in the GWR model and the MGWR model, respectively. The performances of these six models are comprehensively examined and the MGWR and MGWRL models outperform the two global models as well as the GWR and GWRL models. MGWRL is the most accurate model in terms of replicating the observed air quality index (AQI) values and removing residual dependency. The superiority of the MGWR framework over the GWR framework is demonstrated—GWR can only produce a single optimized bandwidth, while MGWR provides covariate-specific optimized bandwidths which indicate the different spatial scales that different processes operate.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Li, Dr Ziqi
Authors: Fotheringham, A. S., Yue, H., and Li, Z.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Geographical and Earth Sciences
Journal Name:Transactions in GIS
Publisher:Wiley
ISSN:1361-1682
ISSN (Online):1467-9671
Published Online:30 September 2019

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