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standard deviational ellipse: a standalone construct

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Spatial statistics

an ellipse summarizing the dispersion and orientation of a set of geographic points around their mean center.

In spatial statistics, standard deviational ellipse refers to an ellipse summarizing the dispersion and orientation of a set of geographic points around their mean center. This meaning comes from Lefever (1926) in American Journal of Sociology.[1]

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References

Lefever, D. W. (1926). Measuring Geographic Concentration by Means of the Standard Deviational Ellipse. American Journal of Sociology, 32(1), 88-94. https://doi.org/10.1086/214027

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