Sąsiedztwo obszarów przestrzennych w ujęciu fizycznym oraz społeczno-ekonomicznym – podejście taksonomiczne
Neighborhood of spatial areas in the physical and socioeconomic context – a taxonomic approach

Summary/Abstract: In the paper a comparison of two concepts of neighborhood of spatial areas: physical and socio-economic is presented. The former one concerns their location on administrative map and potential community of borders, the latter one – a similarity in terms of composite social or economical phenomenon. The paper describes the classical theory of neighborhood and its matrix and shows how it can be used in the case of multivariate data analysis. At the end, an effective method of comparison of both types of neighborhood matrices using – known from algebra – the Smith normal form of an integer matrix is proposed. The utility of investigated model was studied upon the example of data on labor market in Kalisz and districts of kaliski second level of local government administration.

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