Reflections on Les Curry’s contribution to spatial analysis

This essay reflects upon Les Curry's contribution to the development of methods for the statistical analysis of geographical data and how this work fitted with his views on the development of geographical theory. The importance that Les attached to the development of geographical theory has bee...

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Published in:Progress in human geography 2010-06, Vol.34 (3), p.393-394
Main Author: Haining, Robert P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Curry, Leslie
Data analysis
Geodemographics
Geography
Human geography
Personal profiles
Research trends
Scholars
Social Science Research
Social scientists
Spatial Analysis
Spatial data
Statistical analysis
Theory
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Summary:This essay reflects upon Les Curry's contribution to the development of methods for the statistical analysis of geographical data and how this work fitted with his views on the development of geographical theory. The importance that Les attached to the development of geographical theory has been remarked on in other tributes. Less attitude to what today would be termed spatial statistics or spatial data analysis seems to have been that, unless informed by theory, statistical analysis was, to quote one of his phrases, a blunt instrument (Curry, 1972a).
ISSN:0309-1325
1477-0288
DOI:10.1177/03091325100340030902