Creating a regional geography of Britain through the spatial analysis of surnames

Geoforum

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 506-516

  Longley, Paul A ^a   Cheshire, James A ^a   Mateos, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Geo genealogy; Great Britain; Multidimensional scaling; Regionalisation; Surnames

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GENEALOGY; MIGRATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY; REGIONALIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79959857896     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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