Models of Movement: A Review of Alternative Methods
- 1 December 1980
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
- Vol. 12 (12) , 1383-1404
- https://doi.org/10.1068/a121383
Abstract
This paper reviews methods available to analyse movement and in particular migration. Stochastic process models seem able to provide a framework for microanalysis which can incorporate much of the complexity of such processes. However, a consideration of the effect of macro-constraints, in the form of limited opportunities for movement and of interhousehold competition, leads to a distinction between fixed transition rate and fixed state occupancy models. Alternative approaches to fixed state occupancy models are considered, and some of their potential strengths and weaknesses are discussed.Keywords
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