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Introduction
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7
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1. |
The main questions of the
research of social space |
13
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1.1. |
The
impossibility of a general space concept |
13 |
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1.2. |
The
material elements of social space |
15 |
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1.3. |
The
natural and social space as frame |
18 |
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1.4. |
The
reason of research of social
space and its place in
the system of sciences |
21 |
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1.5. |
Methodological concept
of regional science |
25 |
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1.6. |
The
relation of general epistemology and the epistemology
of spatial researches |
30 |
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1.7. |
Methodological monism
and pluralism in the epistemology
of geography |
36 |
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2. |
The
ways of spatial research of society
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41 |
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2.1. |
The
types of spatial analysis and the role of ends
and means |
41 |
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2.2. |
Empirical space and geometrical space |
42 |
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2.3. |
Historical and theoretical analysis of social space |
45 |
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2.4. |
Qualitative and quantitative analysis, general issues |
50 |
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2.5. |
Qualitative and quantitative analysis in historical research |
53 |
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2.6. |
Qualitative and quantitative analysis in theoretical research |
54 |
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3. |
Spatial
division
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63 |
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3.1. |
Necessity and purpose of spatial
division |
63 |
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3.2. |
Two levels
of the area delimitation problem |
66 |
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3.3. |
Similarities and differences between spatial division and classification |
68 |
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3.4. |
Natural and artificial, general and specific
spatial division |
70 |
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3.5. |
General principles of classification and spatial division |
73 |
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3.6. |
Practical principles of spatial division |
76 |
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3.7. |
The basic spatial unit |
80 |
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3.8. |
Single-region and multi-region analysis, single and comparative
studies |
83 |
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3.9. |
The spatial levels and the
spatial units of analysis and
the comparability problem |
86 |
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3.10. |
The areal units of empirical
spatial analyses |
89 |
4.
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The
types of the spatial data
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93
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4.1. |
The
types of the statistical data from spatial point of view |
93 |
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4.2. |
The
localization of social and economical
data |
98 |
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4.3. |
The
types of spatial elements and the spatial
parameter data |
100 |
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4.4. |
The
types of the spatial data
from spatial point of view |
102 |
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4.5. |
The
types of the spatial data
from the point of view
of the observational units |
106 |
5.
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The statistical problems of spatial analysis
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109
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5.1. |
Problems concerning the spatial characters
of data |
109 |
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5.2. |
Problems concerning the spatially aggregated character of data |
115 |
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6. |
Ecological
fallacy
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122 |
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6.1. |
Individual
behaviour and aggregated data: the essence of
the problem |
122 |
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6.2. |
Robinson’s
contribution to the ecological fallacy |
126 |
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6.3. |
The intrepretations of the ecological correlations |
128 |
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6.4. |
The statistical methods of
the inference from aggregated data to individual
data |
131 |
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6.5. |
The empirical significance of the ecological
fallacy |
135 |
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7. |
The modifiable areal unit
problem |
137 |
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7.1. |
The importance of the problem |
137 |
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7.2. |
The effect on correlation
and linear regression |
139 |
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7.3. |
The effect on the
multivariat statistical analysis |
145 |
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7.4. |
The effect on the
location-allocation modeling |
146 |
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7.5. |
The effect on the
macroeconomic theories |
149 |
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7.6. |
The proposals for practical managing of the problems |
154 |
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8. |
Spatial analysis in economic theory |
158 |
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8.1. |
The spatiality and the domain of
theories |
158 |
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8.2. |
About
the space concepts of economics |
160 |
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8.3. |
The main questions of computing spatial price levels |
164 |
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8.4. |
The goods and price
differentiating effect of space and
the interlocal exchange ratio of the technologically
identical goods |
166 |
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8.5. |
The transfer cost of money and
the uniformity of the spatial
purchasing power of money |
170 |
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8.6. |
The spatial problems of the purchasing
power parity doctrine |
175 |
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8.7. |
The spatial problems of the optimal
currency areas doctrine |
178 |
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9. |
The spatial moving average |
188 |
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9.1. |
The purpose of spatial
moving average |
188 |
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9.2. |
Types of spatial moving average |
189 |
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9.3. |
Comparison
of temporal and spatial moving
average |
190 |
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9.4. |
The bandwidth of spatial moving average |
191 |
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9.5. |
Further
features of the method |
193 |
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9.6. |
The application of the method |
194 |
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9.7. |
The generalization of the method: local
statistics |
197 |
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10. |
Methods of analysis using
spatial parameter data |
199 |
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10.1. |
The main questions of analysis methods using spatial parameter data |
199 |
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10.2. |
The spatial autocorrelation |
200 |
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10.3. |
The neighbourhood matrix |
204 |
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10.4. |
Two
indexes of spatial autocorrelation |
207 |
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10.5. |
Spatial
autocorrelation in the case of
square cells |
208 |
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10.6. |
Spatial
autocorrelation in the case of
Hungarian county system |
210 |
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10.7. |
The distribution of indexes |
213 |
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10.8. |
Spatial
autocorrelation of incomes in Hungary |
215 |
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Summary |
221 |
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References |
222 |
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Contents in English |
237 |
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Summary in English |
240 |