This book treats the notion of morphisms in spatial analysis, paralleling these concepts in spatial statistics (Part I) and spatial econometrics (Part II). The principal concept is morphism (e.g., isomorphisms, homomorphisms, and allomorphisms), which is defined as a structure preserving the...

Despite spatial statistics and spatial econometrics both being recent sprouts of the general tree ""spatial analysis with measurement""—some may remember the debate after WWII about ""theory without measurement"" versus ""measurement without theory""—several general themes have emerged in...