Rules for random aggregation

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 957-978

  Steel, D G ^a   Holt, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE DATA; METHODOLOGICAL EVALUATION; POPULATION SIZE; RANDOM AGGREGATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030464540     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a280957     Document Type: Article

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