<p style=" margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:7px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600; font-style:italic;">Point layer</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600;"> :</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;"> The set of known observations to estimate the potentials from.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:7px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600; font-style:italic;">Field name</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600;"> :</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;"> Name of the variable from </span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-style:italic;">Point layer</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;"> from which potentials are computed (quantitative variable without negative values). If no one is selected, 1 is used for each observation of </span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-style:italic;">Point layer</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;">.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:7px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600; font-style:italic;">Mask layer</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600;"> :</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;"> (</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-style:italic;">optional</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;">) The spatial extent of this object is used to create the regularly spaced grid of point and the output will be cropped by it shape.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:7px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600; font-style:italic;">Spatial interaction function</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600;"> :</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;"> The spatial interaction function to use. Options are &quot;</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-style:italic;">pareto</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;">&quot; (means power law) or &quot;</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-style:italic;">exponential</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;">&quot;. If &quot;</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-style:italic;">pareto</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;">&quot; the interaction is defined as: </span><span style=" font-family:'sans-serif'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:600;">(1 + alpha * mDistance) ^ (-beta)</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;">. If &quot;</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-style:italic;">exponential</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;">&quot; the interaction is defined as: </span><span style=" font-family:'sans-serif'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:600;">exp(- alpha * mDistance ^ beta)</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;">. The alpha parameter is computed from parameters given by the user (</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-style:italic;">beta</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;"> and </span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-style:italic;">span</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;">).</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:7px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600; font-style:italic;">Resolution</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600;"> :</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;"> Resolution (</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-style:italic;">in map units</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;">) of the regular grid the create (and resolution of the output raster for Reilly and Huff algorithms - overriden by the </span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-style:italic;">Location of unknown points</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;"> if provided for stewart's potentials).</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:7px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600; font-style:italic;">Span</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600;"> :</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;"> Distance (in map unit, or in the unit of the </span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-style:italic;">Distance matrix</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;"> if provided) where the density of probability of the spatial interaction function equals 0.5.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:7px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600; font-style:italic;">Number of classes</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600;"> :</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;"> Number of classes for the polygon shapefile to create.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:7px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600; font-style:italic; color:#d1d1d1;">Location of unknown points</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600; color:#d1d1d1;"> :</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; color:#d1d1d1;"> The set of unknown points for which the function computes the estimates. Using an unknown points layer will override the </span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-style:italic; color:#d1d1d1;">Resolution</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; color:#d1d1d1;"> parameter.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:7px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600; font-style:italic;">Custom expression</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600;"> :</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;"> An expression to compute and combine potentials on many variables. Only name of numeric fields and basic operators (</span><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-weight:600;">*</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;">, </span><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-weight:600;">+</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;">, </span><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-weight:600;">/</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;"> and </span><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-weight:600;">-</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;">) are allowed (so the expression should be looking like </span><span style=" font-family:'sans-serif'; font-size:8pt; font-weight:600;">&quot;gdppps2008&quot; / &quot;pop2008&quot;</span><span style=" font-family:'sans-serif'; font-size:8pt;">)</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;">. Using a custom expression will override the </span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-style:italic;">Field name</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;"> parameter.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:7px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600; font-style:italic; color:#d1d1d1;">Distance matrix</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600; color:#d1d1d1;"> :</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; color:#d1d1d1;"> A distance matrix between the provided points of the layer given in </span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-style:italic; color:#d1d1d1;">Point layer</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; color:#d1d1d1;"> and in </span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-style:italic; color:#d1d1d1;">Location of unknown points</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; color:#d1d1d1;"> fields.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:7px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'sans-serif'; font-size:8pt; color:#000000;">- HUFF D. (1964) Defining and Estimating a Trading Area. Journal of Marketing, 28: 34-38.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:7px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'sans-serif'; font-size:8pt; color:#000000;">- REILLY, W. J. (1931) The law of retail gravitation, W. J. Reilly, New York.</span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:7px; margin-bottom:7px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;"><span style=" font-family:'sans-serif'; font-size:8pt; color:#000000;">- STEWART J.Q. (1942) &quot;Measure of the influence of a population at a distance&quot;, Sociometry, 5(1): 63-71.</span></p>
<string><html><head/><body><p align="center"><span style=" font-size:9pt;">Partial python port of &quot;</span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600;">SpatialPosition</span><span style=" font-size:9pt;">&quot; </span><span style=" font-size:9pt; font-weight:600;">R package </span><span style=" font-size:9pt;">(with the gracious consent of<br/>the authors H. Commenges &amp; T. Giraud)<br/><br/>-&gt; Original documentation and source code are available on the </span><a href="https://cran.r-project.org/package=SpatialPosition"><span style=" font-size:9pt; text-decoration: underline; color:#0000ff;">CRAN</span></a><span style=" font-size:9pt;"> or on </span><a href="https://github.com/Groupe-ElementR/SpatialPosition"><span style=" font-size:9pt; text-decoration: underline; color:#0000ff;">GitHub</span></a><span style=" font-size:9pt;">.<br/>-&gt; R vignettes explaining the main concepts and showing usecases:<br/></span><a href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SpatialPosition/vignettes/SpatialPosition.html"><span style=" font-size:9pt; text-decoration: underline; color:#0000ff;">Introduction to the SpatialPosition package</span></a><span style=" font-size:9pt;"> &amp; </span><a href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/SpatialPosition/vignettes/StewartExample.html"><span style=" font-size:9pt; text-decoration: underline; color:#0000ff;">Stewart Potential : a Use Case</span></a></p><p align="center"><span style=" font-size:9pt;">Plugin authors : M. Viry &amp; T. Giraud<br/></span></p></body></html></string>