When to use commuting zones? An empirical description of spatial autocorrelation in U.S. counties versus commuting zones

• Craig Wesley Carpenter ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cwcarp@msu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7511-1168

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• Michael C. Lotspeich-Yadao,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5537-3654

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• Charles M. Tolbert

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sociology, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, United States of America

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