An evaluation of spatial patterns and a clustering play an important role among methods of spatial statistics. However, traditional clustering techniques are seldom suitable for analyses of spatial data and patterns because they usually do not count on spatial relations and qualities of objects. This paper aims to introduce usage of methods of spatial clustering estimation, which are based main...

a Jožef Stefan Institute, Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia b Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia c Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, via Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, Italy d Centre of Excellence for Integrated Approaches in Chemistry and Biology of Proteins, Jamova 39,...

Exchange matrices represent spatial weights as symmetric probability distributions on pairs of regions, whose margins yield regional weights, generally well-specified and known in most contexts. This contribution proposes a mechanism for constructing exchange matrices, derived from quite general symmetric proximity matrices, in such a way that the margin of the exchange matrix coincides with th...

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