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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.3
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-188985
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2023/18898/
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Ghosh, Subhankar ; Gupta, Jayant ; Sharma, Arun ; An, Shuai ; Shekhar, Shashi

Reducing False Discoveries in Statistically-Significant Regional-Colocation Mining: A Summary of Results

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Abstract

Given a set S of spatial feature types, its feature instances, a study area, and a neighbor relationship, the goal is to find pairs <a region (r_{g}), a subset C of S> such that C is a statistically significant regional-colocation pattern in r_{g}. This problem is important for applications in various domains including ecology, economics, and sociology. The problem is computationally challenging due to the exponential number of regional colocation patterns and candidate regions. Previously, we proposed a miner [Subhankar et. al, 2022] that finds statistically significant regional colocation patterns. However, the numerous simultaneous statistical inferences raise the risk of false discoveries (also known as the multiple comparisons problem) and carry a high computational cost. We propose a novel algorithm, namely, multiple comparisons regional colocation miner (MultComp-RCM) which uses a Bonferroni correction. Theoretical analysis, experimental evaluation, and case study results show that the proposed method reduces both the false discovery rate and computational cost.

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@InProceedings{ghosh_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.3,
  author =	{Ghosh, Subhankar and Gupta, Jayant and Sharma, Arun and An, Shuai and Shekhar, Shashi},
  title =	{{Reducing False Discoveries in Statistically-Significant Regional-Colocation Mining: A Summary of Results}},
  booktitle =	{12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-288-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{277},
  editor =	{Beecham, Roger and Long, Jed A. and Smith, Dianna and Zhao, Qunshan and Wise, Sarah},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2023/18898},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-188985},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2023.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Colocation pattern, Participation index, Multiple comparisons problem, Spatial heterogeneity, Statistical significance}
}

Keywords: Colocation pattern, Participation index, Multiple comparisons problem, Spatial heterogeneity, Statistical significance
Collection: 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023)
Issue Date: 2023
Date of publication: 07.09.2023

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