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Spatial autocorrelation is the term used to describe the presence of systematic spatial variation in a variable.
External resources
Haining, R.P. (2001). Spatial Autocorrelation. In N.J. Smelser, & P.B. Baltes (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (pp. 14763-14768). Oxford: Pergamon