US census spatial and demographic data in R: The UScensus2000 suite of packages

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1-31

  Almquist, Zack W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; R; Spatial analysis; Spatial data; Spatial data handling; US census

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650549500     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v037.i06     Document Type: Article

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