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Author |
Abe, Hirofumi
Oishi Manabu
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Abstract | Multidimensional scaling (MDS) has been used in a wide variety of research fields; psychology, political science, anthropology, marketing research, urban and regional planning, and so on. In practical terms, MDS is a statistical method to make a picture of the information in the data. It enables us to examine the "hidden structure" of a set of data. When the set of data is large, MDS is extremely useful, since it is easier and more informative to look at a picture than the data themselves. In this paper, MDS is applied to the interregional migration data of Japanese regions for the years 1960-85. Findings show that the two-dimensional configuration of regions estimated by MDS generally corresponds with the geographical locations of regions, and the structure of interregional migration was very stable over the study years 1960-85. It is also suggested that MDS is a useful tool to identify the relationships between regions using the spatial interaction data.
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Publication Title |
Memoirs of the Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University
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Published Date | 1990-12-14
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Volume | volume25
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Issue | issue1
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Publisher | Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University
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Publisher Alternative | 岡山大学工学部
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Start Page | 89
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End Page | 98
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ISSN | 0475-0071
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NCID | AA10699856
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Departmental Bulletin Paper
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岡山大学
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language |
English
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File Version | publisher
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Eprints Journal Name | mfe
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