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## Spatiotemporal patterns of alcohol outlets and violence: A spatially heterogeneous Markov chain analysis

Alcohol-related violence remains a serious social and public health problem in the United States. A large corpus of work suggests a positive statistical relationship between alcohol outlet density and violence. However, questions remain as to how …

## When Spatial Analytics Meets Cyberinfrastructure: an Interoperable and Replicable Platform for Online Spatial-Statistical-Visual Analytics

Developing spatial analytical methods as open source libraries is an important endeavor to enable open and replicable science. However, despite the fact that large geospatial data and geospatial cyberinfrastructure (GeoCI) resources are becoming …

## Sensitivity of sequence methods in the study of neighborhood change in the United States

There is a recent surge in research focused on urban transformations in the United States via empirical analysis of neighborhood sequences. The alignment-based sequence analysis methods have seen many applications in urban neighborhood change …

## A Visual Analytics System for Space--Time Dynamics of Regional Income Distributions Utilizing Animated Flow Maps and Rank-based Markov Chains

Regional income convergence and divergence has been an active field of research for more than 20 years, and research papers in this field are still being produced at a prodigious rate. Despite their importance for the study of dynamics of income …

## Inference for Income Mobility Measures in the Presence of Spatial Dependence

Income mobility measures provide convenient and concise ways to reveal the dynamic nature of regional income distributions. Statistical inference about these measures is important especially when it comes to a comparison of two regional income …

## Markov chain modeling for air pollution index based on maximum a posteriori method

Air pollution is a major environmental problem, which brings about a threat to human health and the natural environment. Thus, determination and assessment of the level of air pollution is an important component in monitoring of the air quality. This …

## A roundtable discussion: Defining urban data science

The field of urban analytics and city science has seen significant growth and development in the past 20 years. The rise of data science, both in industry and academia, has put new pressures on urban research, but has also allowed for new analytical …

## Smoothed Estimators for Markov Chains with Sparse Spatial Observations

Empirical applications of the Markov chain model and its spatial extensions suffer from issues induced by the sparse transition probability matrix, which usually results from adopting maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs). Two discrete kernel …