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Pattern analysis based on type, orientation, size, and shape.(Report)

Apr 01, 2008; Williams, Emily Atwood ... Introduction Understanding land use patterns can provide insight into the spatial processes that created these patterns. Fu and Chen (2000) researched the spatial pattern of agriculture in northern China in an attempt to determine the required landscape diversity for controlling ...

Modeling micro-spatial employment location patterns: a comparison of count and choice approaches.(Report)

Apr 01, 2008; Kim, Hyungtai ... Introduction Studies of employment location have attracted interest from local, state, and federal planners in the last couple of decades as employment location decisions have significantly impacted regional and urban spatial structures. Employment location has also attracted ...

A structural equation approach to models with spatial dependence.(Report)

Apr 01, 2008; Oud, Johan H.L. ... Introduction The purpose of this article is to introduce the class of structural equations models (SEMs) and corresponding estimation procedures into an econometric spatial dependence framework. SEM allows the presence of both latent and observed variables within one and the ...

Developing geostatistical space-time models to predict outpatient treatment burdens from incomplete national data.(Report)

Apr 01, 2008; Gething, Peter W. ... Introduction In an era in which the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (UN 2000) have focused efforts to strengthen health systems in resource-poor nations worldwide, awareness has grown of the concurrent need to improve the availability of reliable health data in these ...

Symptoms of instability in models of spatial dependence.(Report)

Apr 01, 2008; Mur, Jesus ... Introduction There is a quite extended consensus that heterogeneity and dependence are the fundamental characteristics of spatial data (Griffith 2003). The literature has focused mainly on the treatment of spatial dependence, with extremely relevant results. The question of ...