PLS Regression Using Spatial Weights on the Example of Spatial Modeling Support for Political Parties in Elections 2011 to the Sejm of the Republic of Poland

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Space has an important role in the reality around us, especially in the context of socioeconomic research. One of the best examples in which the geographic location of one of the most significant factors is the support for political parties. Interesting from the standpoint of policy research is to analyze factors influencing the results of the political party in a particular spatial or administrative unit. The article focuses on the analysis of electoral data for counties. This was motivated by the high availability of data at a county level, which may be obtained from the Local Data Bank. However, collinearity which occurs in data that affect the support of political parties, limits the use of ordinary linear models. It results in failure of taking into account most of the information contained in the data. In the article will be presented Spatial Partial Least Squares Regression (SPLSR) which takes into account the spatial factor and collinearity. Author will assess SPLSR model with

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