,
Daisuke Murakami
,
Takahiro Yoshida
,
Tomoki Nakaya
,
Binbin Lu
,
Paul Harris
,
Alexis Comber
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
Principal components analysis (PCA) is a useful analytical tool to represent key characteristics of multivariate data, but does not account for spatial effects when applied in geographical situations. A geographically weighted PCA (GWPCA) caters to this issue, specifically in terms of capturing spatial heterogeneity. However, in certain situations, a GWPCA provides outputs that vary discontinuously spatially, which are difficult to interpret and are not associated with the output from a conventional (global) PCA any more. This study underlines a GW non-negative PCA, a geographically weighted version of non-negative PCA, to overcome this issue by constraining loading values non-negatively. Case study results with a complex multivariate spatial dataset demonstrate such benefits, where GW non-negative PCA allows improved interpretations than that found with conventional GWPCA.
@InProceedings{tsutsumida_et_al:LIPIcs.COSIT.2022.21,
author = {Tsutsumida, Narumasa and Murakami, Daisuke and Yoshida, Takahiro and Nakaya, Tomoki and Lu, Binbin and Harris, Paul and Comber, Alexis},
title = {{A Comparison of Geographically Weighted Principal Components Analysis Methodologies}},
booktitle = {15th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT 2022)},
pages = {21:1--21:6},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-257-0},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2022},
volume = {240},
editor = {Ishikawa, Toru and Fabrikant, Sara Irina and Winter, Stephan},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2022.21},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-169062},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.COSIT.2022.21},
annote = {Keywords: Spatial heterogeneity, Geographically weighted, Sparsity, PCA}
}