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Measuring spatial concentration: A transportation problem approach
Author(s) -
Ferrante Mauro,
Lo Magno Giovanni Luca,
De Cantis Stefano,
Hewings Geoffrey J.D.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/pirs.12485
Subject(s) - index (typography) , spatial distribution , measure (data warehouse) , econometrics , spatial analysis , computer science , environmental science , statistics , mathematics , data mining , world wide web
Abstract This paper will propose an index for measuring spatial concentration, which is based on the solution of a particular transportation problem. This approach extends a new index proposed for the measurement of seasonality to the spatial case, and it takes into account the level of the concentration of the phenomenon of interest according to its spatial distribution. Various properties of the proposed index, which make it a desirable measure for spatial concentration, will also be described. An empirical application, using data from selected European countries, will be provided, and the results derived from the proposed index will be compared with those derived from currently used indices.