Irescale - Calculate and Rectify Moran's I
Provides a scaling method to obtain a standardized Moran's
I measure. Moran's I is a measure for the spatial
autocorrelation of a data set, it gives a measure of similarity
between data and its surrounding. The range of this value must
be [-1,1], but this does not happen in practice. This package
scale the Moran's I value and map it into the theoretical range
of [-1,1]. Once the Moran's I value is rescaled, it facilitates
the comparison between projects, for instance, a researcher can
calculate Moran's I in a city in China, with a sample size of
n1 and area of interest a1. Another researcher runs a similar
experiment in a city in Mexico with different sample size, n2,
and an area of interest a2. Due to the differences between the
conditions, it is not possible to compare Moran's I in a
straightforward way. In this version of the package, the
spatial autocorrelation Moran's I is calculated as proposed in
Chen(2013) <arXiv:1606.03658>.