An information statistical approach to the modifiable areal unit problem in incidence rate maps.

Arguing that the modifiable areal unit problem becomes apparent when incidence rates are mapped on the basis of areal units, the writer suggests a new methodology to choose appropriate areal units using the Akaike information criterion and two search methods for an informative geographical aggregati...

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Published in:	Environment & Planning A Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 91 - 110
Main Author:	Nakaya, Tomoki
Format:	Article
Published:	Pion Limited January 2000
Subjects:	Aggregation (Statistics) Geography > Statistical methods Mortality Cartography Methodology Japan
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