Business establishment growth in the Appalachian region (2000–2007) was regressed on industry sector composition controlling for demographic, physical, and economic determinants. We test the hypothesis that local response to growth determinants is geographically heterogeneous using Smooth...

The cumulants of the quadratic forms associated to the so-called spatial design matrices are often needed for inference in the context of isotropic processes on uniform grids. Unfortunately, because the eigenvalues of the matrices involved are generally unknown, the computation of the cumulants...

Existing indices of residential segregation are based on an arbitrary partition of the city in neighborhoods: given a spatial distribution of racial groups, the index provides different levels of segregation for different partitions. This paper proposes a method in which individual locations are...

Bhubaneswar, a second tier state capital city of India, is currently undergoing a transformation from an administrative centre into a hub of economic activities, and experiencing all the associated turmoil one might expect as it struggles to meet the new demands of infrastructure and public...

This paper establishes the asymptotic normality of frequency polygons in the context of stationary strongly mixing random fields indexed by <InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$$\mathbb {Z}^d$$</EquationSource> <EquationSource Format="MATHML"> <math xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <msup> <mrow> <mi mathvariant="double-struck">Z</mi> </mrow> <mi>d</mi> </msup> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation>. Our method allows us to consider only minimal conditions on the width bins and provides a simple criterion on the mixing...</equationsource></equationsource></inlineequation>

Existing indices of residential segregation are based on a partition of the city in neighborhoods: given a spatial distribution of racial groups, the index measures different segregation levels for different partitions. I propose a spatial approach, which estimates segregation at the individual...