Change of support and the modifiable areal unit problem

Geographical Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 159-180

  Cressie, Noel ^a  

^a Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Geostatistics; Kriging; Linear regression; Simpson's paradox; Stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000451784     PISSN: 10692665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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