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Quantitative geography : perspectives on spatial data analysis / A. Stewart Fotheringham, Chris Brunsdon, Martin Charlton.
LIBRA G70.3 .F68 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fotheringham, A. Stewart.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Geography--Statistical methods.
- Geography.
- Spatial analysis (Statistics).
- Geographic information systems.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2000.
- Summary:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-265) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761959475
- 0761959483
- OCLC:
- 42834391
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