Uncertain geographic context problem
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uncertain-geographic-context-problem-303-240013
title:
Uncertain geographic context problem
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The uncertain geographic context problem or UGCoP is a source of statistical bias that can significantly impact the results of spatial analysis when dealing with aggregate data. The UGCoP is very closely related to the Modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP), and like the MAUP, arises from how we divide the land into areal units. It is caused by the difficulty, or impossibility, of understanding how phenomena under investigation in different enumeration units interact between enumeration units, and
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Source of statistical bias
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertain_geographic_context_problem
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2024-04-24T23:21:30Z
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