COMPARING TRADITIONAL METHODS FOR SELECTING CLASS INTERVALS ON CHOROPLETH MAPS*.

The most common goat when classing data for choropleth maps is to create homogeneous classes which contain similar data values. None of the four traditional data classing methods examined here (quartile, equal interval, standard deviation, and natural breaks) consistently generalized the experimenta...

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Published in:	Professional Geographer Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 62 - 68
Main Author:	Smith, Richard M.
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb86
Subjects:	Geography > Statistical methods Historical maps Data analysis Standard deviations Analysis of variance Distribution (Probability theory) Geographical research
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