Population Mobility Dynamics Estimated from Mobile Telephony Data

Journal of Urban Technology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 109-132

  Doyle, John ^a   Hung, Peter ^a   Farrell, Ronan ^a   McLoone, Seán ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

call detail records; imperfect trajectories; Markov chain; population estimation; stationary distribution

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; MARKOV CHAIN; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; MOBILITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ESTIMATION;

IRELAND;

EID: 84902784497     PISSN: 10630732     EISSN: 14661853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10630732.2014.888904     Document Type: Article

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