Incorporating spatial association into statistical classifiers: local pattern-based prior tuning

doi:10.1080/13658816.2020.1737702

Incorporating spatial association into statistical classifiers: local pattern-based prior tuning

2020-03-10

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DOI：10.1080/13658816.2020.1737702

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This paper proposes a new classification method for spatial data by adjusting prior class probabilities according to local spatial patterns. First, the proposed method uses a classical statistical classifier to model training data. Second, the prior class probabilities are estimated according to the local spatial pattern and the classifier for each unseen object is adapted using the estimated prior probability. Finally, each unseen object is classified using its adapted classifier. Because the new method can be coupled with both generative and discriminant statistical classifiers, it performs generally more accurately than other methods for a variety of different spatial datasets. Experimental results show that this method has a lower prediction error than statistical classifiers that take no spatial information into account. Moreover, in the experiments, the new method also outperforms spatial auto-logistic regression and Markov random field-based methods when an appropriate estimate of local prior class distribution is used.

Keywords:

Spatial pattern

statistical classifier

spatial auto-logistic regression

spatial data

Incorporating spatial association into statistical classifiers: local pattern-based prior tuning

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