Measuring Ethnic Clustering and Exposure with the Q Statistic: An Exploratory Analysis of Irish, Germans, and Yankees in 1880 Newark

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 84-102

  Páez, Antonio ^a   Ruiz, Manuel ^b   López, Fernando ^b   Logan, John ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

clustering; exposure; Q statistic; segregation; spatial association

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SEGREGATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

NEW JERSEY; NEWARK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857333013     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2011.620502     Document Type: Article

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