Quantitative Geography: Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis - Softcover

Fotheringham, A. Stewart; Brunsdon, Chris; Charlton, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761959483 ISBN 13: 9780761959489

Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Integrating a discussion of the application of quantitative methods with practical examples, this book explains the philosophy of the new quantitative methodologies and contrasts them with the methods associated with geography's `Quantitative Revolution' of the 1960s. Key issues discussed include: the nature of modern quantitative geography; spatial data; geographical information systems; visualization; local analysis; point pattern analysis; spatial regression; and statistical inference. Concluding with a review of models used in spatial theory, the authors discuss the current challenges to spatial data analysis.

Written to be accessible, to communicate the diversity and excitement of recent thinking, Quantitative Geog

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Stewart Fotheringham is Professor of Quantitative Geography at the University of Newcastle′. Chris Brunsdon is Lecturer in Computer Based Methods, Department of Town and Country Planning, University of Newcastle. Martin Charlton is Lecturer in Geographical Information Systems, Department of Geography, University of Newcastle.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0761959483
• ISBN 13: 9780761959489
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 270
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland