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Geary's C:

Geary's C is given by

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The value used in the game is adjusted, however, by a scale factor and a transformation which assure that it stays between -1 and 1 (where -1 indicates negative spatial autocorrelation, and 1 indicates positive spatial autocorrelation.



Andrew E Long
Wed Jan 13 13:57:34 EST 1999