The classification of ordinal data for choropleth mapping

Cartographic Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 101-109

  Cromley, Robert G ^a   Mrozinski, Richard D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DATA PROCESSING; MAPPING;

EID: 0033494787     PISSN: 00087041     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/caj.1999.36.2.101     Document Type: Article

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