An exploratory method for detecting multi-level clumps in the distribution of points - a computational tool, VCM (variable clumping method)

Journal of Geographical Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 111-120

  Okabe, Atsuyuki ^a   Funamoto, Shino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033864657     PISSN: 14355930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00011449     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Anselin L, Dodson RF, Hudak S (1993) Linking GIS and spatial data analysis in practice. Geographical Systems 1:3-23
2. Fotheringham AS, Zhan FB (1996) A comparison of three exploratory methods for cluster detection in spatial point patterns. Geographical Analysis 28:200-218
3. Goodchild M (1987) A spatial analytical perspective on Geographical Information Systems. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 1:327-334
4. Goodchild M, Haining R, Wise S (1992) Integrating GIS and spatial data analysis: problems and possibilities. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 6:407-423
5. Graham RL, Hell P (1985) On the history of the minimum spanning tree problem. Annals of the History of Computing 7.43-57
6. Haslett J, Wills G, Unwin A (1990) SPIDER-an interactive statistical tool for the analysis of spatially distributed data. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 4:285-296
7. Kruskal JB (1956) On the shortest spanning subtree of a graph and the traveling salesman problem. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 7:48-50
8. Okabe A, Boots B, Sugihara K, Chiu SN (1999) Spatial tessellations: Concepts and applications of Voronoi diagrams (2nd ed). Wiley, Chichester
9. Okabe A, Sadahiro Y (1996) An illusion of spatial hierarchy: spatial hierarchy in a random configuration. Environment and Planning A 28:1533-1552
10. Openshaw S, Charlton M, Wymer C, Craft A (1987) A Mark 1 geographical analysis machine for the automated analysis of point data sets. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 1:335-358
11. Openshaw S, Cross A, Charlton M (1990) Building a prototype geographical correlates exploration machine. International Journal of Geographic al Information Systems 4:297-311
12. Openshaw S, Brunsdon C, Charlton M (1991) A spatial analysis toolkit for GIS. European Conference on Geographical Information Systems: 788-796
13. Prim RC (1957) Shortest connection networks and some generalizations. Bell System Technical Journal 36:1389-1401
14. Roach SA (1968) The theory of random clumping. Methuen, London
15. Sugihara K, Iri M (1989) VORONOI2 reference manual, (unpublished)
16. Tukey JW (1977) Exploratory data analysis. Addison-Wesley, Massachussetts
17. Voronoi G (1908) Nouvelles applications des parameétres continus á la théorie des formes quadratiques, deuxiéme memoire, recherhes sur les paralleloédres primitifs. Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathmatik 134:198-287
18. Walker PA, Moore DM (1988) SIMPLE: an inductive modelling and mapping tool for spatially-oriented data. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems 2:347-363