Boundaries, links and clusters: A new paradigm in spatial analysis?

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 403-419

  Jacquez, Geoff M ^a   Kaufmann, Andy ^a   Goovaerts, Pierre ^a  

^a BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary analysis; Cluster detection; Local Moran; Statistical power; Wombling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DETECTION METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; POLYGON; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 55349118857     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-007-0066-4     Document Type: Article

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