Second Edition GIS - Anthropology

1 GEOGRAPHY6000 Broken Sound Parkway, NW Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487711 Third Avenue New York, NY 100172 Park Square, Milton Park Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, UKan informa methods and Socio-Economic Applications in GISQ uantitative methods and Socio-Economic Applications in GISS econdEditionWangSecond Edition This is a thoroughly revised Edition of a highly useful book on quantitative and gis methods .. provides useful discussion of important methodological issues such as spatial autocorrelation and the modifiable areal unit problem.. an excellent book for students and social scientists interested in various social and economic phenomena with spatial manifestations.

2 Mei-Po Kwan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign .. an excellent book with clear, meaningful, and well-designed examples. It s one of the most useful books on my shelf! Sara McLafferty, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignSee What s New in the Second Edition : All project instructions are in ArcGIS using geodatabase datasets New chapters on regionalization methods and Monte Carlo simulation Popular tasks automated as a convenient toolkit: Huff Model, 2 SFCA accessibility measure, regionalization, Garin Lowry model, and Monte Carlo based spatial simulation Advanced tasks now implemented in user-friendly programs or ArcGIS.

3 Centrality indices, wasteful commuting measure, p-median problem, and traffic simulationThe Second Edition of a bestseller, Quantitative methods and Socio-Economic Applications in GIS (previously titled Quantitative methods and Applications in GIS) details applications of quantitative methods in social science, planning, and public policy with a focus on spatial perspectives. The book integrates GIS and quantitative (computational) methods and demonstrates them in various policy-relevant socio-economic applications with step-by-step instructions and datasets.

4 The book demonstrates the diversity of issues where GIS can be used to enhance the studies related to socio-economic issues and public EditionQuantitative methods and Socio-Economic Applications in GISviiContentsList of Figures .. xvList of Tables ..xixForeword .. xxiiiAuthor ..xxviiList of Major GIS Datasets and Program Files ..xxixList of Quick Reference for Spatial Analysis Tasks ..xxxiSECTION I GIS and Basic Spatial Analysis TasksChapter 1 Getting Started with ArcGIS: Data Management and Basic Spatial Analysis Tools .. Spatial and Attribute Data Management in ArcGIS.

5 Map Projections and Spatial Data Models .. Attribute Data Management and Attribute Join .. Spatial Analysis Tools in ArcGIS: Queries, Spatial Joins, and Map Overlays .. Case Study 1: Mapping and Analyzing Population Density Pattern in Baton Rouge, Louisiana .. Part 1: Mapping the Population Density Pattern Across Census Tracts .. Part 2: Analyzing the Population Density Pattern Across Concentric Rings .. Summary .. 23 Appendix 1: Identifying Contiguous Polygons by Spatial Analysis Tools .. 23 Chapter 2 Measuring Distance and Time .. Measures of Distance.

6 Computing Network Distance and Time .. The Distance Decay Rule .. Case Study 2: Computing Distances and Travel Time to Public Hospitals in Louisiana .. Part 1: Measuring Euclidean and Manhattan Distances .. Part 2: Measuring Travel Time .. Summary .. 79/26/2014 10:44:23 PMviiiContentsAppendix 2A: The Valued Graph Approach to the Shortest Route Problem .. 41 Appendix 2B: Estimating Travel Time Matrix by Google Maps API .. 42 Chapter 3 Spatial Smoothing and Spatial Interpolation .. Spatial Smoothing .. Floating Catchment Area (FCA) Method.

7 Kernel Density Estimation .. Point-Based Spatial Interpolation .. Global Interpolation methods .. Local Interpolation methods .. Case Study 3A: Mapping Place Names in Guangxi, China .. Part 1: Spatial Smoothing by the Floating Catchment Area Method .. Part 2: Spatial Interpolation by Various methods .. Area-Based Spatial Interpolation .. Case Study 3B: Area-Based Interpolations of Population in Baton Rouge, Louisiana .. Part 1. Using the Areal Weighting Interpolation to Transform Data from Census Tracts to School Districts in 2010 .. Part 2. Using the Target-Density Weighting (TDW) Interpolation to Interpolate Data from Census Tracts in 2010 to Census Tracts in 2000.

8 Summary .. 64 Appendix 3A: Empirical Bayes Estimation for Spatial Smoothing .. 64 Appendix 3B: The Network Hierarchical Weighting Method for Areal Interpolation .. 65 SECTION II Basic Quantitative methods and ApplicationsChapter 4 GIS-Based Trade Area Analysis and Application in Business Geography .. Basic methods for Trade Area Analysis .. Analog Method and Regression Models .. Proximal Area Method .. Gravity Models for Delineating Trade Areas .. Reilly s Law .. Huff Model .. Link between Reilly s Law and Huff Model.

9 Extensions of the Huff Model .. 89/26/2014 10:44:23 Case Study 4A: Defining Fan Bases of Cubs and White Sox in Chicago Region .. Part 1. Defining Fan Base Areas by the Proximal Area Part 2. Defining Fan Base Areas and Mapping Probability Surface by Huff Model .. Case Study 4B: Estimating Trade Areas of Public Hospitals in Louisiana .. Part 1. Defining Hospital Service Areas by the Proximal Area Method .. Part 2. Defining Hospital Service Areas by Huff Model .. Concluding Remarks .. 87 Appendix 4A: Economic Foundation of the Gravity Model.

10 88 Appendix 4B: A Toolkit for Implementing the Huff Model .. 90 Chapter 5 GIS-Based Measures of Spatial Accessibility and Application in Examining Health Care Access .. Issues on Accessibility .. The Floating Catchment Area methods .. Earlier Versions of Floating Catchment Area (FCA) Method .. Two-Step Floating Catchment Area (2 SFCA) Method .. The Gravity-Based and Generalized 2 SFCA Models .. Gravity-Based Accessibility Index .. Comparison of the 2 SFCA and Gravity-Based methods .. The Generalized 2 SFCA Model .. Case Study 5: Measuring Spatial Accessibility to Primary Care Physicians in Chicago Region.