A scale-space clustering method: Mitigating the effect of scale in the analysis of zone-based dat

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 85-101

  Mu, Lan ^a   Wang, Fahui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Level of convergence; Modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP); Modified scale space clustering (MSSC) method; Small population problem; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; GIS; HOMOGENEITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAND USE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 55349093546     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045600701734224     Document Type: Article

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