The results obtained from studies of spatially aggregated data are not independent of the choice of zoning system. The paper investigates the effects of different zone-design criteria on a linear-regression model. It is concluded that there is unlikely to be either a simple or general-purpose solution to the problem.
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Stan Openshaw (1978) studied this question.
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