Area homogeneity and the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem

Geographical Systems

Volumn 3, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 181-200

  Holt, D ^a   Steel, D G ^b   Tranmer, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Ecological analysis; MAUP; Scale effects; Statistical inference; Zoning effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000586355     PISSN: 10692665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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