The study of data for a given area based on differing zonal aggregations can therefore lead to very misleading results. The issue is known as the modifiable areal unit problem, or MAUP (Openshaw, 1984).
The study of data for a given area based on differing zonal aggregations can therefore lead to very misleading results. The issue is known as the modifiable areal unit problem, or MAUP (Openshaw, 1984).