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spatial heterogeneity  

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  • 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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