Entropy In Regional Analysis

Czyż Teresa () and Jan Hauke ()
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Czyż Teresa: Institute of Socio-Economic Geography and Spatial Management, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Quaestiones Geographicae, 2015, vol. 34, issue 4, 69-78

Abstract: Entropy has been proposed as a significant tool for an analysis of spatial differences. Using Semple and Gauthier’s (1972) transformation of the Shannon entropy statistic into an entropy measure of inequality and their algorithm, an estimation is made of changes in regional inequality in Poland over the years 2005–2012. The inequality is decomposed into total, inter- and intra-regional types, and an analysis is made of relations holding between them.

Keywords: entropy measure of inequality; decomposition of regional inequalities; changes in regional inequality pattern; Poland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1515/quageo-2015-0037

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