Published April 7, 2021
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A Supervised Heuristic for a Balanced Approach to Regionalization
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- 1. Department of Geography, University of Maryland College Park
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Regionalization refers to the design of areal zones by spatially aggregating smaller units into larger clusters. Algorithms to conduct regionalization typically require the desired number of clusters to be specified a priori, though a reasonable number is not always clear. Therefore, a heuristic is proposed to endogenously determine the number of clusters in a supervised setting (i.e., model-driven) by balancing the fit of a spatial model and the average area of clusters used as input. The heuristic is applied in a spatial interaction modeling context and a workflow is presented for integrating regionalization algorithms into larger spatial analysis frameworks.
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