Comparing traditional and spatial segregation measures: A spatial scale perspective

Urban Geography

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 66-82

  Wong, David W S ^a  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissimilarity index; Multigroup comparison; Scale effect; Spatial segregation measures; The MAUP

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 2442656299     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.25.1.66     Document Type: Article

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