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Stan Openshaw, Developing Automated and Smart Spatial Pattern Exploration Tools for Geographical Information Systems Applications, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 44, No. 1 (1995), pp. 3-16
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