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The aim of this book has been to develop a methodological framework to explain, control for and, eventually, to eliminate some of the difficulties arising from the configuration of data in statistical analysis of geographical problems. Throughout the book we have used the term spatial data configuration to describe the set of all the relevant information which specifies the geography of a study area such as neighbourhood links between regions from which the data derive, their size, their shape, and their relative and absolute location. In particular we have discussed four main manifestations of the effects of spatial data configuration: the scale problem, the aggregation problem, the ecological fallacy problem and the problem of estimating the spatial correlogram.
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Arbia, G. (1989). Conclusion. In: Spatial Data Configuration in Statistical Analysis of Regional Economic and Related Problems. Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2395-9_9
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