Package: lctools
Version: 0.3
Date: 2026-06-30
Type: Package
Title: Local and Geographically Weighted Spatial Statistics Tools
Authors@R: person(given = "Stamatis",
                  family = "Kalogirou",
                  role = c("aut", "cre"),
                  email = "stamatis.science@gmail.com")
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
Imports: sp, reshape, weights, pscl, MASS
Description: Provides researchers and educators with easy-to-learn, user friendly
    tools for calculating key spatial statistics and for applying simple as well as
    advanced methods of spatial analysis on real data. These include: Local Pearson
    and Geographically Weighted Pearson Correlation Coefficients; Spatial Inequality
    Measures (Gini coefficient, Spatial Gini, Location Quotient (LQ) and Focal
    Location Quotient); Spatial Autocorrelation indices (Global and Local Moran's I);
    several Geographically Weighted Regression techniques, including the
    Geographically Weighted Zero-Inflated Poisson Regression; tools for computing
    variables used in Spatial Interaction Models; and other spatial analysis tools
    (other geographically weighted statistics). The local correlation tools were
    originally developed to test for local multicollinearity among the explanatory
    variables of local regression models and can also be used to examine the local
    association between pairs of variables. The package also contains functions for
    measuring the significance of each statistic calculated, mainly based on Monte
    Carlo simulations, and comes with two example datasets, one of which is a spatial
    data frame referring to the municipalities of Greece. Methods are described in
    Kalogirou (2012) <doi:10.1007/s10037-011-0061-y>, Kalogirou (2016)
    <doi:10.1111/gean.12092>, and Rey and Smith (2013) <doi:10.1007/s12076-012-0086-z>.
License: GPL (>= 2)
VignetteBuilder: knitr
URL: https://stamatisgeoai.eu
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-06-30 22:01:41 UTC; Stamatis
Author: Stamatis Kalogirou [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Stamatis Kalogirou <stamatis.science@gmail.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-07-09 07:30:02 UTC
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