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Yesterday I changed this stub article into a #redirect to spatial analysis. Today Hesperian has switched it back, and added a little more information. I'm not interested in starting a fight. But I honestly think that "statistical geography" is simply another name for "spatial analysis". So I'd like to get a friendly discussion started here.
I ran a few searches on Google Scholar. Searching the exact phrase "statistical geography" I got 595 hits, including Spatial Analysis: A Reader in Statistical Geography (Prentice-Hall, 1968), and this paper, which was published by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College, London; it examines the statistical geography of the internet.
Searching the exact phrase "spatial analysis" on Google Scholar got 52,400 hits. Narrowing this search to those articles that also incorporate the words "statistical" and "geography", I'm still left with 10,500 hits. Here's a quote from page 21 of this publicly accessible article:
By spatial analysis, I mean the analysis of data that have spatial coordinates or geographic locations such as data for electoral precincts, countries, regions, cities, or locational attributes of voters (street address, work location, personal networks, etc).
I submit that "statistical geography" and "spatial analysis" are synonymous terms, and that the Wikipedia article on the subject should appear under the term that is more commonly used. DavidCBryant 14:03, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Anon Commentary: As an interested reader, clarification between these two pages would be helpful. It seems to me that statistically designated areas are a tool of the discipline concerned with the statistical/analytical understanding of geographical/spacial areas. As someone who is specifically looking for the information contained in the article "spacial analysis" the "statistical geography" article was slightly misleading until I found this talk page. I also found it odd that the "statistical geography" page seemed to primarily discuss Australia when I was expecting a discussion of a scientific discipline. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.61.186 ( talk) 19:45, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
what is the significance of statistics in Geography 102.0.5.67 ( talk) 10:23, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
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Yesterday I changed this stub article into a #redirect to spatial analysis. Today Hesperian has switched it back, and added a little more information. I'm not interested in starting a fight. But I honestly think that "statistical geography" is simply another name for "spatial analysis". So I'd like to get a friendly discussion started here.
I ran a few searches on Google Scholar. Searching the exact phrase "statistical geography" I got 595 hits, including Spatial Analysis: A Reader in Statistical Geography (Prentice-Hall, 1968), and this paper, which was published by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College, London; it examines the statistical geography of the internet.
Searching the exact phrase "spatial analysis" on Google Scholar got 52,400 hits. Narrowing this search to those articles that also incorporate the words "statistical" and "geography", I'm still left with 10,500 hits. Here's a quote from page 21 of this publicly accessible article:
By spatial analysis, I mean the analysis of data that have spatial coordinates or geographic locations such as data for electoral precincts, countries, regions, cities, or locational attributes of voters (street address, work location, personal networks, etc).
I submit that "statistical geography" and "spatial analysis" are synonymous terms, and that the Wikipedia article on the subject should appear under the term that is more commonly used. DavidCBryant 14:03, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
Anon Commentary: As an interested reader, clarification between these two pages would be helpful. It seems to me that statistically designated areas are a tool of the discipline concerned with the statistical/analytical understanding of geographical/spacial areas. As someone who is specifically looking for the information contained in the article "spacial analysis" the "statistical geography" article was slightly misleading until I found this talk page. I also found it odd that the "statistical geography" page seemed to primarily discuss Australia when I was expecting a discussion of a scientific discipline. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.61.186 ( talk) 19:45, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
what is the significance of statistics in Geography 102.0.5.67 ( talk) 10:23, 28 April 2024 (UTC)