Entropy-Maximising Location Models for Nonindependent Events

1 February 1975

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space

Vol. 7 (1) , 99-108
https://doi.org/10.1068/a070099

Abstract

This paper presents two kinds of entropy-maximising location model for situations in which there exist two classes of individual. In one class of model, sampling is with replacement; in the second, sampling is without replacement. These problems are solved, and interpreted as describing the distribution of items and the component classes of items by distance, size, or time. The paper emphasises methods of obtaining complete solutions to each model for certain ideal cases. The first class of model has negative exponential solutions, the second is characterised by logistic functions.

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This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:

The design of a location experiment
Transportation Research, 1973
Derivation of the Negative Exponential Model by an Entropy Maximising Method
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1970
Engineering Design
Published by Elsevier ,1969