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A simulated 'sandbox' for exploring the modifiable areal unit problem in aggregation and disaggregation.

Jeremiah J Nieves, Andrea E Gaughan, Forrest R Stevens, Greg Yetman, Andreas Gros

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Article in Scientific data, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Jeremiah J NievesUniversity of Glasgow, School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, Glasgow, UK. jeremiah.j.nieves@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7423-1341
Andrea E GaughanUniversity of Louisville, Dept. of Geographic and Environmental Sciences, Louisville, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4898-1587
Forrest R StevensUniversity of Louisville, Dept. of Geographic and Environmental Sciences, Louisville, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9328-3753
Greg YetmanCenter for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), University of Columbia, Columbia, USA.
Andreas GrosVibrant Planet PBC, Nevada, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present a spatial testbed of simulated boundary data based on a set of very high-resolution census-based areal units surrounding Guadalajara, Mexico. From these input areal units, we simulated 10 levels of spatial resolutions, ranging from levels with 5,515-52,388 units and 100 simulated zonal configurations for each level - totalling 1,000 simulated sets of areal units. These data facilitate interrogating various realizations of the data and the effects of the spatial coarseness and zonal configurations, the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem (MAUP), on applications such as model training, model prediction, disaggregation, and aggregation processes. Further, these data can facilitate the production of spatially explicit, non-parametric estimates of confidence intervals via bootstrapping. We provide a pre-processed version of these 1,000 simulated sets of areal units, meta- and summary data to assist in their use, and a code notebook with the means to alter and/or reproduce these data.

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PMID38402236
PMCPMC10894218

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