Geary's C is a measure of spatial or an attempt to determine if adjacent observations of the same phenomenon are correlated. Spatial autocorrelation is more complex than because the correlation is multi-dimensional and bi-directional.
Geary's C is defined as
where is the number of spatial units indexed by and ; is the variable of interest; is the mean of ; is a matrix of spatial weights with zeroes on the diagonal (i.e., ); and is the sum of all .