【摘要】The objective of this paper is to assess an approach to statistical modeling of point referenced establishment data that permit inclusion of “environmental” or establishment-specific co-variates and specific forms of interestablishment interaction. Gibbs models are used to decompose theconditional intensity of the spatial point process into trend and interaction components. The trend iscomposed of access measures (primarily different classes of roads) and three different interaction pro-cesses are tested: Geyer, area interaction, and Strauss hard core. While the models used have provedto be useful in ecology, we are unaware of any applications to establishment or firm data. In empiricalapplication, the models yield intuitively appealing results for the trend component, and the ability tospecify the interaction component gives deeper insights into interestablishment spatial dynamics thanany previously published methods.

【文献来源】Sweeney S;Gomez‐Antonio M.Journal of Regional Science.2016（2）