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Exploring SpatialMedian and CentralFeature for geographical regions

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POSTED BY: Roman Parker
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Small note: If you weight the distribution centers by metro area populations, the result might change.

POSTED BY: Daniel Lichtblau

Interesting. I will look into how to do that.

POSTED BY: Roman Parker

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POSTED BY: Richard Frost

If a distance metric is induced by a norm, then centroid can also be used as a measure of central value. Although it is sometimes confused in the applied literature, a distance metric without an inducing norm has no centroid - only the mean, median, and central feature. Note that the mean is independent of distance metric while the central feature is not. Also note that some distance metrics (e.g. Mahalanobis) often produce a centroid equivalent to the mean - which is desirable in some applications and a problem in others.

POSTED BY: Richard Frost

I have updated the notebook based on the feedback you have given me, adding a section on different distance functions and calculation methods for the centroid and spatial median. Thank you for your feedback!

POSTED BY: Roman Parker

Well done, again!

POSTED BY: Richard Frost
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