Using Symbolic Data in Gravity Model of Population Migration to Reduce Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP)

Wilk Justyna ()
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Wilk Justyna: Wrocław University of Economics, Department of Econometrics and Computer Science, 58-500, Jelenia Góra, Poland

Statistics in Transition New Series, 2015, vol. 16, issue 2, 243-264

Abstract: Spatial analyses suffer from modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP). This occurs while operating on aggregated data determined for high-level territorial units, e.g. official statistics for countries. Generalization process deprives the data of variation. Carrying out research excluding territorial distribution of a phenomenon affects the analysis results and reduces their reliability. The paper proposes to use symbolic data analysis (SDA) to reduce MAUP. SDA proposes an alternative form of individual data aggregation and deals with multivariate analysis of inter-valvalued, multi-valued and histogram data.

Keywords: modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP); symbolic data analysis (SDA); gravity model; population migration; economic distance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.21307/stattrans-2015-013

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