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Research on small towns requires appropriate data and methods. This article provides an overview of the data situation … and range of methods in small town research. The first section discusses the difficulty of finding clear definitions of … methods that are primarily used in small town research are presented and set in context. Then in the third section available …
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units of analysis. There is still progress to be made in improving matching methods, making more extensive use of time …
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The Hoover Index is the most widely used measure for assessing the concentration or deconcentration tendencies of a country’s evolving population distribution. In this article, the authors propose alternative variants of the index designed to explore the influences of the various...
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A contingent valuation survey (willingness-to-pay study) was conducted in 2004 to measure household demand for typhoid vaccines in a rural township in China with approximately 54,000 people living in 141 villages. The results showed that travel distance to vaccination sites and vaccination price...
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interpolation methods proposed thus far, few method are based on spatial econometrics: a subset of econometrics which is concerned …
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The significant role that Walter Isard played in regional analyses is well known at least among those of us conducting regional studies, as recently reviewed by Boyce. In this short article, we examine several aspects of Isard’s input–output accounts and models and raise two...
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and methods and what future progress in the field will entail. …
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In this application, income and job growth in the eastern United States are explained using a partial adjustment model with regime switching potential and spatial spillover, or “Smooth Transition†spatial process models (STAR). This relatively new class of spatial regression models...
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Corridor location for developing new infrastructure such as transmission lines, roadways, and pipelines over terrain must consider numerous factors when determining the set of optimal route candidates. Previous researchers have cast this problem as a multiobjective least cost path problem, where...
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This essay assesses the evolution of the way in which spatial data analytical methods have been incorporated into …
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