Entropy In Regional Analysis

Teresa Czyż; Jan Hauke

doi:10.1515/quageo-2015-0037

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Entropy In Regional Analysis

Quaestiones Geographicae

Volume 34 (2015): Issue 4 (December 2015)

By: Teresa Czyż and Jan Hauke

Open Access

|Dec 2015

Abstract

Entropy has been proposed as a significant tool for an analysis of spatial differences. Using Semple and Gauthier’s (1972) transformation of the Shannon entropy statistic into an entropy measure of inequality and their algorithm, an estimation is made of changes in regional inequality in Poland over the years 2005–2012. The inequality is decomposed into total, inter- and intra-regional types, and an analysis is made of relations holding between them.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/quageo-2015-0037 | Journal eISSN: 2081-6383 | Journal ISSN: 2082-2103

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Language: English

Page range: 69 - 78

Submitted on: Jul 9, 2015

Published on: Dec 30, 2015

Published by: Adam Mickiewicz University

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Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

Keywords:

entropy measure of inequality,

decomposition of regional inequalities,

changes in regional inequality pattern,

Poland

Related subjects:

Geosciences,

Geography

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Volume 34 (2015): Issue 4 (December 2015)