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Traditionally science has been concerned, in part, with the study of structure amongst variables. With the development of statistical concepts, such as the runs statistic, and the advent of time-series analysis, more recent attention has been turned to the study of structure amongst observations of a single variable. Within this context the notion of autocorrelation has received considerable treatment (see Bhat, 1974; Crowder, 1976; Silvey, 1961), with the special case of spatial autocorrelation receiving extensive consideration (see, for example, Cliff and Ord, 1981).
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Griffith, D.A. (1988). Introduction to Spatial Statistics and Data Handling. In: Advanced Spatial Statistics. Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2758-2_1
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