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This kind of estimation method will not only improve the accuracy of the coefficient estimators but also reveal the underlying spatial scale of each explanatory variable. However, most of the existing multiscale estimation approaches are backfitting-based iterative procedures that are very time-consuming. To alleviate the computation complexity, we propose in this paper a non-iterative multiscale estimation method and its simplified scenario for spatial autoregressive geographically weighted regression (SARGWR) models, a kind of important GWR-related model that simultaneously takes into account spatial autocorrelation in the response variable and spatial heterogeneity in the regression relationship. In the proposed multiscale estimation methods, the two-stage least-squares (2SLS) based GWR and the local-linear GWR estimators of the regression coefficients with a shrunk bandwidth size are respectively taken to be the initial estimators to obtain the final multiscale estimators of the coefficients without iteration. A simulation study is conducted to assess the performance of the proposed multiscale estimation methods, and the results show that the proposed methods are much more efficient than the backfitting-based estimation procedure. In addition, the proposed methods can also yield accurate coefficient estimators and such variable-specific optimal bandwidth sizes that correctly reflect the underlying spatial scales of the explanatory variables. A real-life example is further provided to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed multiscale estimation methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e25020320","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,10]],"date-time":"2023-02-10T02:33:27Z","timestamp":1675996407000},"page":"320","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Non-Iterative Multiscale Estimation for Spatial Autoregressive Geographically Weighted Regression Models"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"Shi-Jie","family":"Gao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Finance and Statistics, School of Science, Xi\u2019an Polytechnic University, Xi\u2019an 710048, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chang-Lin","family":"Mei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Finance and Statistics, School of Science, Xi\u2019an Polytechnic University, Xi\u2019an 710048, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qiu-Xia","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Finance and Statistics, School of Science, Xi\u2019an Polytechnic University, Xi\u2019an 710048, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhi","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Statistics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi\u2019an Jiaotong University, Xi\u2019an 710049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"605","DOI":"10.1080\/026937996137909","article-title":"The geography of parameter space: An investigation of spatial non-stationarity","volume":"10","author":"Fotheringham","year":"1996","journal-title":"Int. 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