Microgeographic Sampling a Quantitative Approach to Regional Agricultural Geography

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5116471
AutoresJ M Blaut (autor de correspondencia)
Año1959
Volumen35
Número1
Páginas79
Fecha de publicación1959-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEconomic Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/142081
OpenAlexW2316875202
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4

1 See discussions in P. E. James and C. F. Jones, Edits., A merican Geography: Inventory and Prospect, Syracuse University, 1954: One [frontier of regional study] has to do with the procedure for the selection of sample studies. . . . Students of statistics have devised samipling procedures with a high degree of reliability; students of regions are challenged to propose procedures for sampling areal rather than numerical groupings ([Derwent Whittlesey, p. 62). question remains whether better results can be obtained fromi sampling in agricultural geography] by making use of geometric or statistical methods for selecting samples, or by depending on the trained judgm-nent of the field investigator (Harold H. McCarty, et al., p. 269). For a concrete illustration of the usefulness of statistical sampling in land-use surveys, cf. Walter F. Wood, of Stratified Random Samples in a Land Use Study, Annals Assn. of Amer. Geogrs., Vol. 45, 1955, pp. 350367. Wood's paper deals primarily with estinmates of area from samiple-based data. The application of sampling to geomorphology, with stress on techniques of statistical mainipulation, is discussed by Arthur N. Strahler in Statistical Analysis in Geomorphic Research, Journal of Geology, Vol. 62, 1954, pp. 1-25. Discussions of applicable sampling methods will be found in J. M. Blaut: Micro-Regional Sample Surveys in Applied Agricultural Geography: A Preliminary Statement, Proceedings of the Louisiana Academy of Sciences, Vol. 17, 1954, pp. 100-106. The present paper deals with one phase of the subject: the application of representative probability sampling, in combination with microgeography, to a problem in applied regional geography which as yet seems not to have been solved by any other means. While the method-termed for convenience the micro-regional sample survey--is discussed here in relation to a specific type of problem, it is clearly adaptable to somewhat wider use. It may, in fact, illustrate the basic approach needed to quantify regional geography and generalize microgeography

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