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spatial dependence

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  1. [spatial analysis] A relation that is said to exist and be positive when the category ranks of two distributions increase or decrease similarly in space, as calculated using Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. If the category ranks in one distribution increase while those of the other decrease, negative spatial dependence exists.

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