Blar i Geografi i Bergen på forfatter "Bivand, Roger S."
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Dynamic externalities and regional manufacturing development in Poland
Bivand, Roger S. (Geografi i Bergen, Research report, 1999)The impact of localization and urbanization economies on regional manufacturing development in Poland 1976-96 is assessed in terms of employment and the regional convergence or divergence of the economy. Current research ... -
Implementing functions for spatial statistical analysis using the R language
Bivand, Roger S.; Gebhardt, Albrecht (Geografi i Bergen, Research report, 1998)R is a language similar to S for statistical data analysis, based on modern programming concepts and released under the GNU General Public License. It permits the integration of program scripts with compiled dynamically ... -
Integrating GRASS 5.0 and R: GIS and modern statistics for data analysis
Bivand, Roger S. (Geografi i Bergen, Research report, 1999)With the release of the open-source GIS GRASS 5.0 in early 1999, opportunities are presented for integration with the open-sourcestatistical data analysis programming environment. After reviewing these two software ... -
Open Source software and the knowledge economy: virtually free and virtually immeasurable
Bivand, Roger S. (230, Research report, 1999)One of the most striking innovations to emerge with full vigour in the late 1990's, but building on earlier precedent, is Open Source software. While there are good technical reasons for releasing the source code of computer ... -
A review of spatial statistical techniques for location studies
Bivand, Roger S. (Geografi i Bergen, Research report, 1998)While the new economic geography of trade and location has, understandably enough, concentrated on developing models of stylised relationships, it now seems that a review of some techniques which may be applied in empirical ... -
Spaces beyond the horizon? Alternative imaginative geographies between Europe and the Orient
Bivand, Roger S. (Geografi i Bergen, Research report, 1999)Post-structuralist and post-colonial discourses in contemporary human geography often make reference to the works of Joseph Conrad, albeit not infrequently in an iconized fashion. This essay reviews some grounds for feeling ... -
Using the R statistical data analysis language on GRASS 5.0 GIS data base files
Bivand, Roger S. (Geografi i Bergen, Research report, 1999)With the release of the open-source GIS GRASS 5.0 in early 1999, opportunities are presented for integration with the open-source R statistical data analysis programming environment (Ihaka and Gentleman, 1996, code obtained ...