A statistical procedure for detecting “contagious” location patterns for manufacturing establishments is presented. Manufacturing industries’ establishment clustering tendencies are ranked based on the “dispersion parameter” of the negative binomial distribution. Establishment data are...

A statistical procedure for detecting "contagious" location patterns for manufacturing establishments is presented. Manufacturing industries' establishment clustering tendencies are ranked based on the "dispersion parameter" of the negative binomial distribution. Establishment data are for...

In this paper we investigate industry characteristics associated with the clustering of establishments in three-digit SIC manufacturing industries in nonmetropolitan areas. The dispersion parameter "k" of the negative binomial distribution is selected as the measure of industry spatial...