Peter J Cowan

Biographic Data

ID4513407
NAMEPeter J Cowan
GIVEN NAMESPeter J
FAMILY NAMECowan
SIGNATURECOWAN P J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity College Hospital
ORCID0000-0001-9016-4954
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1963
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
H-INDEX1

  • Authors’ Statements [Peter Cowan]

    Open AccessPeter Cowan, Peter J CowanARTICLEAustralian Literary Studies1981

  • Editors’ Statements [Peter Cowan]

    Open AccessPeter Cowan, Peter J CowanARTICLEAustralian Literary Studies1981

  • The Containment of Urban England: Discussion

    Peter Cowan, Peter J Cowan et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1974Cited by: 1

  • Developing Patterns of Urbanisation

    Open AccessMorgan D Thomas, Peter Cowan et al.ARTICLEGeographical Review1972

  • Developing Patterns of Urbanization

    Open AccessHélène Bergues, Peter Cowan et al.ARTICLEPopulation1971Cited by: 3

  • Developing Patterns of Urbanisation

    John M Hall, Peter Cowan et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1970Cited by: 1

  • Conclusions

    Open AccessPeter Cowan, Peter J Cowan et al.ARTICLEUrban Studies1969

  • On the number of links in a system

    Peter J Cowan, P Cowan et al.ARTICLERegional Studies1969Cited by: 1

    Cowan P. and Fine D. (1969) On the number of links in a system, Reg. Studies 3, 235–242. The paper begins by considering the number of links which may occur in a system which grows over time. A distinction is made between potential links and actual links. It is hypothesized that the proportion of actual links (lN ) to potential links (LN ) declines as a function of the overall size of the system measured by the number of nodes. A basic formula is…

  • Approaches to urban model-building

    Peter J Cowan, P Cowan et al.ARTICLERegional Studies1967

    Cowan P., Ireland J. and Fine D. (1967) Approaches to urban model-building, Reg. Studies 1, 163–172. The problem is to construct mathematical models which will reproduce the pattern of office growth in the London area, 1947–1965. Two sets of data are used—Land Use and Planning Permissions. These data are allocted to a 500 m grid system. Two models are described, each based on the “attractiveness” of a grid cell for office space in a given time pe…

  • Medical Care and Information

    Peter Cowan, Peter J CowanARTICLEMedical Care1966

  • Determining Maternity Case Load by Means of a Poisson Process

    Peter J Cowan, P Cowan et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…1964

  • The size of Hospitals

    Peter Cowan, Peter J CowanARTICLEMedical Care1963

    One of the most important and pressing decisions we have to take about the future development of the hospital service concerns the size to which hospitals should be planned. Discussion of this topic began in 1864, when Holmes and Bristow1 concluded that : ' We have no hesitation in saying that the size of the hospital is a matter of absolute indifference; whether it contains a hundred patients or a thousand does not appear to exercise the least i…

  • Children in Hospital

    Peter Cowan, Peter J CowanARTICLEMedical Care1963