Comparing the Thiessen’s Method against simpler alternatives using Monte Carlo Simulation
Estimating the expected value of a function over geographic areas is problem with a long history. In the beginning of the XX-th century the most common method was just the arithmetic mean of the field measurements ignoring data location. In 1911, Thiessen introduced a new weighting procedure measur...
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Language: | English |
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Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia
2018-04-01
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Series: | Revista Cartográfica |
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Online Access: | https://revistasipgh.org/index.php/rcar/article/view/191 |