Despite spatial statistics and spatial econometrics both being recent sprouts of the general tree ""spatial analysis with measurement""—some may remember the debate after WWII about ""theory without measurement"" versus ""measurement without theory""—several general themes have emerged in...

In this paper we provide a brief overview of some of the most recent empirical research on spatial econometric models and spatial data mining. Data mining in general is the search for hidden patterns that may exist in large databases. Spatial data mining is a process to discover interesting,...