A Million or So Correlation Coefficients¶
Openshaw, S., & Taylor, P. J. (1979). A Million or So Correlation Coefficients: Three Experiments on the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem. Statistical Applications in the Spatial Sciences.
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- Modifiable Areal Unit Problem
- The identical skeleton appears in a macroeconomist computing volatility under quarterly versus annual aggregation, a commission drawing alternative district maps from identical voter data, a network scientist running community detection at different resolutions, a histogram displaying the same data as unimodal or bimodal under different bins, and a climate scientist computing trends at different grid scales.
This sourceDemonstrates empirically that correlations computed on aggregated areal data range across nearly the whole interval depending on how units are drawn (scale and zoning effects).
- The identical skeleton appears in a macroeconomist computing volatility under quarterly versus annual aggregation, a commission drawing alternative district maps from identical voter data, a network scientist running community detection at different resolutions, a histogram displaying the same data as unimodal or bimodal under different bins, and a climate scientist computing trends at different grid scales.
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