The influence of data aggregation on the stability of p-median location model solutions

Geographical Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 200-213

  Murray, Alan T ^a   Gottsegen, Jonathan M ^b,c  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Natl Ctr of Geogr Info and Anal

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; LOCATION MODEL; P-MEDIAN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031418910     PISSN: 00167363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4632.1997.tb00957.x     Document Type: Article

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