Incorporating space into social histories: How spatial processes operate and how we observe them

International Review of Social History

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 57-80

  Deane, Glenn ^a   Beck, E M ^a   Tolnay, Stewart E ^a  

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EID: 0032268870     PISSN: 00208590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0020859000115093     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. The two-stage estimation method alluded to in this paper was developed (independently) by Luc Anselin and Kenneth Land. Their work is responsible for broadly expanding the application of spatial-effects models in the social sciences. The following publications give the technical details on model estimation: Anselin, Luc, Spatial Econometrics: Methods and Models (Boston, 1988).
2. Land, Kenneth C. and Glenn Deane, "On the Estimation of Regression Models with Spatial Effects Terms for Large Samples: A Two-Stage Least Squares Approach", Sociological Methodology (Washington, DC, 1992), pp. 221-248.
3. To our knowledge, the following articles are the only historical studies to date using spatial-effects models: Blau, Judith R., Kenneth C. Land and Kent Redding, "The Expansion of Religious Affiliation: An Explanation of the Growth of Church Participation in the United States, 1850-1930", Social Science Research, 21 (1992), pp. 329-352.
4. Land, Kenneth C., Glenn Deane and Judith R. Blau, "Religious Pluralism and Church Membership: A Spatial Diffusion Model", American Sociological Review, 56 (1992), pp. 237-249.
5. Tolnay, Stewart E., "The Spatial Diffusion of Fertility: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Counties in the American South, 1940", American Sociological Review, 60 (1995), pp. 299-308.
6. Tolnay, Stewart E., Glenn Deane and E.M. Beck, "Vicarious Violence: Spatial Effects on Southern Lynchings, 1890-1919", American Journal of Sociology, 102 (1996), pp. 788-815. The generation of spatial models described in this paper were formulated by Keith Ord, a geographer, in the early 1970s and introduced into sociology by Patrick Doreian. A number of economists and regional scientists continue to develop spatial models using alternative methods to the two-stage procedure we describe. Anselin's contributions, most recently in the area of "exploratory spatial data analysis", are the most notable and his SpaceStat software is the only statistical package written expressly for spatial data analysis.
7. Anselin, Luc, "Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis and Geographic Information Systems", in New Tools for Spatial Analysis (Luxembourg, 1994), pp. 45-54.
8. Anselin, Luc, SpaceStat Version 2.0., Bruton Center for Development Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX (forthcoming, 1998).
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11. Doreian, Patrick, "Estimating Linear Models with Spatially Distributed Data", in Sociological Methodology (San Francisco, 1980), pp. 359-388.
12. Kelejian Harry H., and Dennis P. Robinson, "A Suggested Method of Estimation for Spatial Interdependent Models with Autocorrelated Errors, and an Application to a County Expenditure Model", Papers in Regional Science, 72 (1993), pp. 297-312.
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