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While spatial correlation measures, particularly Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA), are widely used to detect spatial patterns, the presence of abnormal observations may frequently distort the landscape and conceal critical spatial relationships. Traditional influence function (IF) methodologies, commonly used in statistical analysis to measure the impact of individual observations on statistical measures, are not applicable in the spatial context because in this case the influence is determined not only by the value observed in a spatial unit, but also by its location, its connections with neighboring regions, and by the values observed in neighboring observations. In this paper, we introduce a local version of the influence function (called \u201cLocal Influence Function\u201d, or LIF for short) that accounts for spatial dependence in robustness analysis. 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