“…This method is applied or extended in influence diagnostics to many regression models and multivariate statistics; see, e.g. Backman et al (1987), Lawrance (1988), Thomas and Cook (1990), Wu and Luo (1993), Shi (1997), Poon and Poon (1999), Zhu and Lee (2001), Shi and Ojeda (2004), Shi and Huang (2011) and Paula et al (2012). However, no attention has been paid to the local influence analysis for the general spatial model in the current literature.…”