The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem

By Christopher D. Lloyd. 2014

174 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b8a1a9741395109ca2aca727783872d5a301fcf4

Citations in the corpus

• Social choice ethics in artificial intelligence (2017, unknown): “This is seen in the concept of ‘‘gerrymandering’’, in which unintuitive district lines are drawn so as to maximize advantage for a political party, or more generally in the modifiable areal unit problem, in which different demarcations of spatial units yield different results (Openshaw 1983).”