Creating measures of theoretically relevant neighborhood attributes at multiple spatial scales

Sociological Methodology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 322-368

  Bader, Michael D M ^a   Ailshire, Jennifer A ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Kriging; Neighborhoods; Physical disorder; Spatial analysis; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907538086     PISSN: 00811750     EISSN: 14679531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0081175013516749     Document Type: Article

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