Ecological inference and spatial heterogeneity: An entropy-based distributionally weighted regression approach

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 257-276

  Peeters, Ludo ^a   Chasco, Coro ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ecological inference; Generalised cross entropy; Spatial heterogeneity; Spatial non stationarity; Spatial prediction

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 33749388187     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2006.00082.x     Document Type: Article

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