Using the getis statistic to explore aggregation effects in metropolitan Toronto census data

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 137-149

  Amrhein, Carl ^a   Reynolds, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregation effect; MAUP; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000663072     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1997.tb01154.x     Document Type: Article

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