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On the Location Quotient Confidence Interval
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On the Location Quotient Confidence Interval

Abstract

The location quotient is a useful tool for comparing area characteristics. It has applications in areas such as health care and economics. Individual location quotient standard deviations play an important role in comparing area characteristics. Using the Delta Method, a closed‐form expression is derived for calculating the standard deviation of the individual location quotient. The performance of the proposed method is assessed by simulation. …

Authors

Moineddin R; Beyene J; Boyle E

Journal

Geographical Analysis, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 249–256

Publisher

Wiley

Publication Date

July 2003

DOI

10.1111/j.1538-4632.2003.tb01112.x

ISSN

0016-7363