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Geospatial Analysis and Modelling of Urban Structure and Dynamics (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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Geospatial Analysis and Modelling of Urban Structure and Dynamics (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
Series: GeoJournal Library, 99
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A Coming of Age: Geospatial Analysis and Modelling in the Early
Twenty First Century Forty years ago when spatial analysis first
emerged as a distinct theme within geography's quantitative
revolution, the focus was largely on consistent methods for
measuring spatial correlation. The concept of spatial au-
correlation took pride of place, mirroring concerns in time-series
analysis about similar kinds of dependence known to distort the
standard probability theory used to derive appropriate statistics.
Early applications of spatial correlation tended to reflect
geographical patterns expressed as points. The perspective taken on
such analytical thinking was founded on induction, the search for
pattern in data with a view to suggesting appropriate hypotheses
which could subsequently be tested. In parallel but using very
different techniques came the development of a more deductive style
of analysis based on modelling and thence simulation. Here the
focus was on translating prior theory into forms for generating
testable predictions whose outcomes could be compared with
observations about some system or phenomenon of interest. In the
intervening years, spatial analysis has broadened to embrace both
inductive and deductive approaches, often combining both in
different mixes for the variety of problems to which it is now
applied.
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