Publications

Qingfang Wang, Wei Kang (2024). Race/Ethnicity and Employment Insecurity: Impacts of COVID-19 on the US Labor Force and Beyond. Population Research and Policy Review.

Yixin Chen, Darcy Van Deventer, Roch Nianogo, Marco Vinceti, Wei Kang, Myles Cockburn, Noah Federman, Julia E. Heck (2024). Maternal residential exposure to solvents from industrial sources during pregnancy and childhood cancer risk in California. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health.

Qingfang Wang, Wei Kang (2023). Small businesses and government assistance during COVID-19: Evidence from the paycheck protection program in the U.S.. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.

Elizabeth Hatch, Chuyuan Wang, Wei Kang, Brajesh Karna, Natalie Sabinsky, Kristin M. Ferguson (2023). Geographies of Opportunity for Youth Across the Contiguous United States. The Professional Geographer.

Sharon S. Oselin, Justine G. M. Ross, Qingfang Wang, Wei Kang (2023). Fair Chance Act failures? Employers' hiring of people with criminal records. Criminology & Public Policy.

Wei Luo, Yuxuan Zhou, Zhaoyin Liu, Wei Kang, Shenjing He, Rui Zhu, Ruiyun Li, Bo Huang (2023). Cross-regional analysis of the association between human mobility and COVID-19 infection in Southeast Asia during the transitional period of ``living with COVID-19''. Health & Place.

Wei Kang (2022). Spatial dynamics. Handbook of Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences.

Wei Kang, Qingfang Wang (2022). The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Businesses in the US: A Longitudinal Study from a Regional Perspective. International Regional Science Review.

Sergio J. Rey, Luc Anselin, Pedro Amaral, Dani Arribas-Bel, Renan Xavier Cortes, James David Gaboardi, Wei Kang, Elijah Knaap, Ziqi Li, Stefanie Lumnitz, Taylor M. Oshan, Hu Shao, Levi John Wolf (2022). The PySAL Ecosystem: Philosophy and Implementation. Geographical Analysis.

Wei Kang, Elijah Knaap, Sergio Rey (2022). Changes in the economic status of neighbourhoods in US metropolitan areas from 1980 to 2010: Stability, growth and polarisation. Urban Studies.

Qingfang Wang, Wei Kang (2021). What Are the Impacts of COVID-19 on Small Businesses in the U.S.? Early Evidence based on the Largest 50 MSAs. Geographical Review.

Ran Wei, T.H. Grubesic, Wei Kang (2021). Spatiotemporal patterns of alcohol outlets and violence: A Spatial Heterogeneous Markov Chain Analysis. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.

Wei Kang, Sergio J. Rey (2021). Smoothed Estimators for Markov Chains with Sparse Spatial Observations. Geographical Analysis.

Yousif Alyousifi, Kamarulzaman Ibrahim, Wei Kang, Wan Zawiah Wan Zin (2021). Robust empirical Bayes approach for Markov chain modeling of air pollution index. Journal of Environmental Health Science and Engineering.

Wei Kang (2020). PySAL and Spatial Statistics Libraries. The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (3rd Quarter 2020 Edition).

Hu Shao, Wenwen Li, Wei Kang, Sergio J Rey (2020). When Spatial Analytics Meets Cyberinfrastructure: an Interoperable and Replicable Platform for Online Spatial-Statistical-Visual Analytics. Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis.

Wei Kang, Sergio Rey, Levi Wolf, Elijah Knaap, Su Han (2020). Sensitivity of sequence methods in the study of neighborhood change in the United States. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems.

Yousif Alyousifi, Kamarulzaman Ibrahim, Wei Kang, Wan Zawiah Wan Zin (2020). Modeling the spatio-temporal dynamics of air pollution index based on spatial Markov chain model. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.

Wei Kang, Sergio J. Rey (2020). Inference for Income Mobility Measures in the Presence of Spatial Dependence. International Regional Science Review.

Sergio Rey, Su Yeon Han, Wei Kang, Elijah Knaap, Renan Xavier Cortes (2020). A Visual Analytics System for Space--Time Dynamics of Regional Income Distributions Utilizing Animated Flow Maps and Rank-based Markov Chains. Geographical Analysis.

Stefanie Lumnitz, Dani Arribas-Bell, Renan Cortes, James Gaboardi, Verena Griess, Wei Kang, Taylor Oshan, Levi Wolf, Sergio Rey (2020). `splot` - visual analytics for spatial statistics. Journal of Open Source Software.

Yousif Alyousifi, Kamarulzaman Ibrahim, Wei Kang, Wan Zawiah Wan Zin (2019). Markov chain modeling for air pollution index based on maximum a posteriori method. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health.

Wei Kang, Sergio J. Rey (2019). Smoothed Estimators for Markov Chains with Sparse Spatial Observations. Geographical Analysis.

Organizers, Wei Kang, Taylor Oshan, Levi J Wolf, Discussants, Geoff Boeing, Vanessa Frias-Martinez, Song Gao, Ate Poorthuis, Wenfei Xu (2019). A roundtable discussion: Defining urban data science. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.

Taylor M. Oshan, Ziqi Li, Wei Kang, Levi J. Wolf, A. Stewart Fotheringham (2019). MGWR: A Python Implementation of Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression for Investigating Process Spatial Heterogeneity and Scale. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.

Taylor Oshan, Levi John Wolf, A. Stewart Fotheringham, Wei Kang, Ziqi Li, Hanchen Yu (2019). A comment on geographically weighted regression with parameter-specific distance metrics. International Journal of Geographical Information Science.

Sergio J. Rey, Wei Kang, Levi John Wolf (2019). Regional inequality dynamics, stochastic dominance, and spatial dependence. Papers in Regional Science.

Hanchen Yu, Alexander Stewart Fotheringham, Ziqi Li, Taylor Oshan, Wei Kang, Levi John Wolf (2019). Inference in Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression. Geographical Analysis.

Su Yeon Han, Sergio Rey, Elijah Knaap, Wei Kang, Levi Wolf (2019). Adaptive Choropleth Mapper: An Open-Source Web-Based Tool for Synchronous Exploration of Multiple Variables at Multiple Spatial Extents. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.

Sergio Rey, Elijah Knaap, Su Han, Levi Wolf, Wei Kang (2018). Spatio-temporal analysis of socioeconomic neighborhoods: The Open Source Longitudinal Neighborhood Analysis Package OSLNAP. Proceedings of the 17th Python in Science Conference.

Wei Kang, Sergio J. Rey (2018). Conditional and joint tests for spatial effects in discrete Markov chain models of regional income distribution dynamics. The Annals of Regional Science.

A. Stewart Fotheringham, Wenbai Yang, Wei Kang (2017). Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression (MGWR). Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

Sergio J. Rey, Wei Kang, Levi Wolf (2016). The properties of tests for spatial effects in discrete Markov chain models of regional income distribution dynamics. Journal of Geographical Systems.