[R-sig-Geo] Is Fisher z transformation applicable for the z score of Moran's I in function sp.correlogram?

[Roger Bivand]

No, Moran's I is *not* a correlation coefficient, see publications by 
Hepple, Tiefelsdorf and others.

Roger

On Sun, 3 May 2015, mozzie wrote:

> Sorry, I made some mistake in the previous post.
> My question is:
> *Can I use the estimate column for Fisher z transformation?
> *
> Spatial correlogram
> method: Moran's I
>             estimate expectation    variance standard deviate Pr(I) two
> sided
> 1 (5300)   0.06365873 -0.00018871  0.00017095           4.8833
> 1.043e-06 ***
> 2 (4631)   0.02206724 -0.00021598  0.00022252           1.4938
> 0.1352
> 3 (3981)  -0.01431569 -0.00025126  0.00027118          -0.8541
> 0.3931
> 4 (3433)   0.01341846 -0.00029138  0.00033019           0.7545
> 0.4506
> 5 (2898)   0.02451172 -0.00034518  0.00040564           1.2342
> 0.2171
> 6 (2393)  -0.00115558 -0.00041806  0.00049807          -0.0330
> 0.9736
> 7 (1969)   0.01015559 -0.00050813  0.00060344           0.4341
> 0.6642
> 8 (1630)  -0.00541672 -0.00061387  0.00072303          -0.1786
> 0.8582
> 9 (1330)   0.01078355 -0.00075245  0.00088182           0.3885
> 0.6977
> 10 (1094) -0.00027244 -0.00091491  0.00106462           0.0197
> 0.9843
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