The Application of Information Theory to the Analysis of Population Distributions in Space

places within the frameworks of Christaller or Losch. Both of these approaches are very valuable, but nevertheless restricted in their application. The latter, while highlighting further problems for research gives us little understanding of the parameters which we presume to exist in the irregular patterns of the real world. The former has used mostly statistical techniques developed in other disciplines, although few of these allied fields have been concerned with the de-