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ERIC Number: EJ1276032
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Nov
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0049-1241
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Using Universal Kriging to Improve Neighborhood Physical Disorder Measurement
Mooney, Stephen J.; Bader, Michael D. M.; Lovasi, Gina S.; Neckerman, Kathryn M.; Rundle, Andrew G.; Teitler, Julien O.
Sociological Methods & Research, v49 n4 p1163-1185 Nov 2020
Ordinary kriging, a spatial interpolation technique, is commonly used in social sciences to estimate neighborhood attributes such as physical disorder. Universal kriging, developed and used in physical sciences, extends ordinary kriging by supplementing the spatial model with additional covariates. We measured physical disorder on 1,826 sampled block faces across four U.S. cities (New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, and San Jose) using Google Street View imagery. We then compared leave-one-out cross-validation accuracy between universal and ordinary kriging and used random subsamples of our observed data to explore whether universal kriging could provide equal measurement accuracy with less spatially dense samples. Universal kriging did not always improve accuracy. However, a measure of housing vacancy did improve estimation accuracy in Philadelphia and Detroit (7.9 percent and 6.8 percent lower root mean square error, respectively) and allowed for equivalent estimation accuracy with half the sampled points in Philadelphia. Universal kriging may improve neighborhood measurement.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (NIH)
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Identifiers - Location: New York (New York); Pennsylvania (Philadelphia); Michigan (Detroit); California (San Jose)
Grant or Contract Numbers: 5T32HD05783307