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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Exploratory spatial data analysis"”.
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Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis for Origin and Destination Flow Data
… the existence of geographical attributes in the datasets, interactive visualization tools and dynamic graphics. In this study, I propose a new set of techniques for exploring O-D flow data and integrate it into an operational ESDA environment. These objectives are decomposed into the following …
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Neighborhood Effects Of Physical Interventions To Abandoned Housing
… officers in large, American cities along with Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis were performed to see this goal. The results suggest that maintenance interventions are able to abate neighborhood rates of fire and crime incidence to a much greater degree than demolition. This study is …
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Diagnosing the Increase in Homicides in Montevideo
… into the driving forces of this change. The data is analyzed by means of a variety of rather novel approaches within the field of criminology, such as network analysis, exploratory spatial data analysis and techniques developed in the context of epidemiological studies. The evidence presented …
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Entrepreneurship in the Knowledge Based Economy: A Spatial Analysis of Great Britain 2008-2010
… contribution by examining the determinants of spatial variations in entrepreneurship across sub-regions of Great Britain from 2008-2010. Through utilising newly available data on firm births and applying exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial econometric techniques, two prominent …
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Rail Rebound: The Impact of Freight Rails on Regional Development in the United States, 1970-2010
… impacts of freight rails using county-level data in the continental United States from 1970 to 2010. The demographic and socioeconomic changes are measured by eleven dependent variables. Of those eleven, six are demographic (population, young, old, White, Black, Hispanic) and five are …
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A Spatial Analysis of Obesity and Its Associations with the Built and Natural Environment, Physical Inactivity, and Socioeconomic and Demographic Conditions in the United States of America
… in the US, a clearer understanding of how spatial associations between obesity and confounding factors are interrelated is crucial to better tackle the issue of obesity. This study employs the ‘global’ and ‘local’ Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA) methods including the Ordinary Least …
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Developing A Geospatial Protocol For Coral Epizootiology
… how geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial statistics, specifically the techniques used to map, detect, and spatially analyze disease epidemics, could be used to advance our understanding of coral reef health. Given that different types of spatial analysis, as well as different …
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Social Disorganization and the Public Level of Crime Control: A Spatial Analysis of Ecological Predictors of Homicide Rates in Bogota, Colombia
… of ecological theories of crime to the spatial distribution of homicides in Bogota, Colombia, while proposing alternative measures of social disorganization that are analogous to those used in the American literature but that are more reflective of both social realities and data …
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A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Selected Local Labour Market Outcomes in New Zealand
… respond to local or external shocks, taking spatial dependencies into account. The first aspect considered is the change in regional employment outcomes in New Zealand from the 1980’s to 2006. This is examined using shiftshare techniques supplemented by exploratory spatial data analysis. The …
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Out of home placement location and juvenile delinquency: the investigation of neighborhood impact on child welfare population's juvenile justice involvement
… old. The design is longitudinal and involves the analysis of a unique data sharing agreement in a large metropolitan county. The study followed the placement experiences and delinquency petitions associated with the sample from birth through age 16. The study used data from IDCFS administrative …
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Regional wage disparities in post-apartheid South Africa: spatial patterns, convergence dynamics, and causes
This thesis examines the spatial patterns, convergence dynamics, and causes of regional wage disparities in post-apartheid South Africa. The analysis is conducted using a unique dataset for 354 regions constructed from the 1996, 2001 and 2011 population censuses. The thesis comprises of six …
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Aplicação de métodos de estatística espacial e multivariada na análise da qualidade da àgua no Sul do Mar do Norte
… de Controle de Qualidade de Dados da SeaDataNet, um projeto internacional de oceanografia destinado a disponibilizar dados marítimos europeus. Foram realizados testes de pico e gradiente, além da padronização dos dados e imputação através de interpolação de ponderação pela distância …