num_pages: 288
description: 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 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
language: English
title: Quantitative Geography: Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis
titlecomplete: Quantitative Geography: Perspectives on Spatial Data Analysis
genres: Geography
ratings_count: 9
publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd