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Using Universal Kriging to Improve Neighborhood Physical Disorder Measurement

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  • Stephen J. Mooney
  • Michael D. M. Bader
  • Gina S. Lovasi
  • Kathryn M. Neckerman
  • Andrew G. Rundle
  • Julien O. Teitler

Abstract

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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  • Stephen J. Mooney & Michael D. M. Bader & Gina S. Lovasi & Kathryn M. Neckerman & Andrew G. Rundle & Julien O. Teitler, 2020. "Using Universal Kriging to Improve Neighborhood Physical Disorder Measurement," Sociological Methods & Research, , vol. 49(4), pages 1163-1185, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:somere:v:49:y:2020:i:4:p:1163-1185
    DOI: 10.1177/0049124118769103
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