Focal Location Quotients: Specification and Applications

Geographical Analysis

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 398-410

  Cromley, Robert G ^a   Hanink, Dean M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867044902     PISSN: 00167363     EISSN: 15384632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4632.2012.00852.x     Document Type: Article

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