https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/how-to-handle-discrete-count-data-as-dependent/m-p/1096279#M2479 <P><A href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/spatial-statistics/how-geographicallyweightedregression-works.htm" target="_blank">How Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) works—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation</A>&nbsp;</P><P>are you planning to use a Poisson (Count) Model type?</P><P>More suggestions and restrictions are listed in the link above</P> Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:40:44 GMT DanPatterson 2021-09-08T09:40:44Z https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/how-to-handle-discrete-count-data-as-dependent/m-p/1096261#M2478 <P>This may look a bit familiar but I am not sure about a few things.</P><P>I want to investigate the possible relationship between crime incidents and some environmental variables such as the:</P><P>Distance to roads, distance to residential areas, land use and population density. Note that the Dependent variable is&nbsp; a count/discrete data (crime incident points) and all the explanatory variables are rasters and&nbsp; continuous variables (land use is categorical, which I intend to include using the dummy variable route).</P><P><STRONG>1. I intend to convert all the rasters including the land use raster to points. Is this really okay?&nbsp;</STRONG></P><P><STRONG>2. Can I use the raw crime data (without aggregating to a polygon such as fishnet, hexagon, etc) in Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) to assess the relationship as explained above. Or must I aggregate into some kind of polygon for it to work?</STRONG></P><P><STRONG><FONT face="inherit">3. I was </FONT>also<FONT face="inherit">&nbsp;looking at Forest-based classification... what do you think?</FONT></STRONG></P><P><FONT face="inherit">Kindly offer your thoughts, please.</FONT></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Wed, 08 Sep 2021 08:01:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/how-to-handle-discrete-count-data-as-dependent/m-p/1096261#M2478 Elijah 2021-09-08T08:01:51Z https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/how-to-handle-discrete-count-data-as-dependent/m-p/1096279#M2479 <P><A href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/spatial-statistics/how-geographicallyweightedregression-works.htm" target="_blank">How Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) works—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation</A>&nbsp;</P><P>are you planning to use a Poisson (Count) Model type?</P><P>More suggestions and restrictions are listed in the link above</P> Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:40:44 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/how-to-handle-discrete-count-data-as-dependent/m-p/1096279#M2479 DanPatterson 2021-09-08T09:40:44Z