MGWR (Multi-scale Geographically Weighted Regression) is a new release of a Microsoft Windows & MacOS based application software for calibrating multi-scale geographically weighted regression (GWR) models, which can be used to explore geographically varying relationships between dependent/response variables and independent/explanatory variables. It incorporates the widely used approach to modeling process spatial heterogeneity - Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) as well as the newly proposed approach - Multiscale GWR (MGWR) which relaxes the assumption that all of the processes being modeled operate at the same spatial scale. A GWR model can be considered a type of regression model with geographically varying parameters.

As an open source project, MGWR expects users to cite use of the software. The following is the citation information for the software:

  • Oshan, T.M., Z. Li, W. Kang, L. J. Wolf and A. S. Fotheringham “mgwr: A Python Implementation of Multiscale Geographically Weighted Regression for Investigating Process Spatial Heterogeneity and Scale” ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8(6) 269 2019. doi:10.3390/ijgi8060269 https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/6/269/pdf

To learn more about the open-source python package mgwr please visit our git repository at https://github.com/pysal/mgwr .

MGWR Software Downloads

MGWR (for Windows)

This is the 64 bit version of MGWR intended for 64 bit Windows Operating Systems such as Windows 10, Windows 8 , Windows 7 and Windows Vista.

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MGWR (for MacOS)

This is the version of MGWR intended for Apple MacOS Operating Systems such as macOS 10.14 Mojave, macOS 10.13 High Sierra , macOS 10.12 Sierra.

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MGWR Manual

This is a comprehensive electronic manual for MGWR in pdf format. The manual contains detailed installation instructions and help documentation.

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GWR Bibliography

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MGWR Sample Data

Tokyo

Sample Tokyo Dataset for use with MGWR.

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Georgia

Sample Georgia Dataset for use with MGWR.

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Clearwater

Sample Clearwater Dataset for use with MGWR.

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Berlin Airbnb

Sample Berlin Airbnb Dataset for use with MGWR.

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Previous Versions

GWR4

Older versions of our GWR4 software can be found at the link below

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