How far is too far? - A statistical approach to context-contingent proximity modeling

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 157-178

  Yao, Xiaobai ^a   Thill, Jean Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

'CURRENT; CONTEXT FACTORS; DISTANCE MEASURE; EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES; FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS; METRIC DISTANCES; NEAR-FAR; ONTOLOGY'S; PROXIMITY MEASURE; STATISTICAL APPROACH;

LINGUISTICS;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 31344438880     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2005.00211.x     Document Type: Article

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