Nomothetic geography revisited : statistical distributions, their underlying principles, and inequality measures

Auteurs :
NOVOTNÝ, J.
NOSEK, V.

Description :
The paper focuses on some issues related to regularities in the statistical distributions of various social and environmental phenomena. The interest has also been reflected in geography with a lot of activity given to the documentation and c1assifcation of the regularities but less to their explanations The performance of selected parametric measures of inequality is tested with respect to data coming from differently skewed distributions. - (EN)


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Geografie. Sbornik Ceské geografické spolecnosti, issn : 1212-0014, 2009, vol. 114, n°. 4, p. 282-297, nombre de pages : 16, Références bibliographiques : 55 ref.

Date :
2009

Editeur :
Pays édition : Tcheque, Republique, Praha, Ceská geografická spolecnost