Concept information
Preferred term
spatial heterogeneity
Definition
- Spatial heterogeneity is a characteristic of the distribution of geographic data, that is, data where the location of observations is explicitly taken into account. It is a special form of structural instability, that is, the situation where a property of a distribution is not constant across the sample. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Geography; Spatial Heterogeneity]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/spatial_heterogeneity
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