Scaling research
Hello CSISS,
I'm new to this bulleting board, but thought I'd share my research topics.
I've been looking at how to apply fractal and scaling methods usefully in geography. Specifically I've been using various spatial analysis methods to examine patterns of population and settlement. Different estimates of fractal dimension seem to provide a metric that reflects the visual impression of clustering present in a pattern. However they also provide ways to calculate the probability of something being in a particular region or area based on the existing, spatially correlated data.
What's important is not whether the data set is "fractal", but rather how and why the measured scaling properties differ between areas or phenomena.
I'm moving my research forwards to look at patterns of cancer and other diseases, and I'd like to take a look at patterns of pollution and longitudinal data. Other key interests include crime, poverty and other social phenomena in terms of their spatial and temporal patterns.
However, my interests are pretty broad, so if you have a project of interest, or want to get involved in what I'm doing - let me know and maybe we can set up some collaboration.
Roger Sambrook
Center for Complex Systems
Florida Atlantic University
sambrook@science.fau.edu
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