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GIS and spatial data analysis: Converging perspectives
We take as our starting point the state of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial data analysis 50 years ago when regional science emerged as a new field of enquiry. In the late 1950s and 1960s advances in computing technology were making possible forms of automated cartography that in due course would lead to th
Testing for spatial association of qualitative data using symbolic dynamics
Spatial independence, Qualitative data, Nominal variables, Symbolic dynamics, Entropy, Fast food, C12, C14, C21, R12,