GEOGRAPHY AND THE PROPERTIES OF SURFACES. THE CONTINENT PROBLEM--GEOGRAPHY AND SPATIAL VARIANCE.

Abstract

Let the earth's surface be regarded as consisting of sets of two kinds of places, land and not-land. In terms of the analysis of variance applied to spatial distributions, how may the fragmented distribution of land over the earth's surface be regarded as grouped into continents, each a separate source of spatial variance. Various variance ratios are investigated in this paper. A first approximation to a rigorous and defensible definition of continents based on spatial considerations alone is given and a more refined method is outlined. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 22, 1968
Accession Number
AD0664511

Entities

People

  • Christopher W. Warntz

Organizations

  • Harvard University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Continents
  • Data Science
  • Geographic Distribution
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geography
  • Information Science
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Spatial Distribution

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

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  • Regression Analysis.