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: 2026-07-09 14:32:06 UTC; root
Author: Stamatis Kalogirou [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Stamatis Kalogirou <stamatis.science@gmail.com>
Repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-07-09 08:54:45 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/cran/lctools
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