This paper brings together a number of new specification search strategies in spatial econometric modeling. In the literature, experimental results for several forward stepwise strategies aimed at remedying spatial dependence, have been reported. Essentially, these strategies boil down to the...

This paper presents a number of algorithms for a recently developed measure of space-time concordance. Based on a spatially explicit version of Kendall’s <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$\tau $$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"> <math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <mi mathvariant="italic">τ</mi> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation> the original implementation of the concordance measure relied on a brute force <InlineEquation ID="IEq2"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$O(n^2)$$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"> <math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <mrow> <mi>O</mi> <mo stretchy="false">(</mo> <msup> <mi>n</mi> <mn>2</mn> </msup> <mo stretchy="false">)</mo> </mrow> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation> algorithm...</equationsource></equationsource></inlineequation></equationsource></equationsource></inlineequation>