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Springer New Methods Of Geostatistical Analysis And Graphical Presentation Distributions Of Populations Over Territories 1999 Edition by Roberto Bachi
New Methods of Geostatistical Analysis and Graphical Presentation Table of contents : Preface. Foreword. Part One: Basic Concepts Aims and Contents of this Book. 1: Introducing Geostatistical Methods through Simple Examples. 2: Applications of Geostatistical Methods Contents and Limits of this Book. 3: Geosets of Populations Distributed over a Pre-Determined Territory. 4: Further Considerations on Geosets of Territories. Part Two: Graphical Presentation of Geographical-Statistical Data. 5: Evolution State-of-the-Art and Problems of Statistical Mapping. 6: Graphical Rational Patterns: General Considerations - Applications to Simple Statistical Maps. 7: Comparative Maps. Part Three: Parameters Measuring Characteristics of Primary and Derived Geosets. 8: Proportion and Territorial Coverage of Surpluses and Matches Densities. 9: Centers of Geosets. 10: Parameters of Dispersion and Oblongity of Geosets Principal Axes.11: Parameters of Form (Shape of Territories and Patterns of Population). 12: Parameters of Position of Geosets - Coincidence Congruence and Similarity. Part Four: Summary Comparison of Geosets by Measuring the Minimal Distance from Them. 13: The Minimal Distance between Geosets: Aims Ways of Calculation Examples. 14: Properties of Minimal Distance Triangle of Distances Joint Analysis of Several Minimal Distances Measuring Inconsistency. 15: Decomposition of ASMD (Average of the Squares of Minimizing Distances). 16: Minimal Distance between a Geoset gG and Geoset gJ Obtained by Transforming the Coordinates of gG. Eliminating Influences of Position and Dimensions from Minimal Distance. Part Five: Epilogue. 17: Some Concluding Remarks. 18: The Computer Program Used in this Book.