The Topological Weighted Centroid: A New Vision of Geographic Profiling
Theory and Applications
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Precursor to TWC
A complementary approach to the topological one of TWC is what is called “ Profiling.
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Illustrative Examples
Two simple examples are presented next to further illustrate the TWC algorithms so that a sense of how the algorithms analyze geographic data work. The example of Chap. 3
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Introduction
Topological (TWC) is a set of algorithms that take a distribution of whose 2- (latitude/longitude) geographical are known input data and extracts patterns, dynamics, that is, information.
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Appendices—MATLAB Programs
These appendices contain four of TWC the algorithms (alpha, beta, gamma, theta) written in MATLAB code . The MATLAB code was used to generate the maps associated with the illustrative examples Chap. . The cod...
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TWC Applications
This section contains a few of the many applications of TWC that have actually been implemented either at the request of a person or as a project from an agency or as a part of a journal publication. A few hav...
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The Theory of TWC
TWC theory consists of several components. This chapter reviews the key elements that make up the theory and the constituent algorithms that are used in TWC. There are theoretical components of TWC, among them...
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Advanced TWC Topics
The previous chapters mentioned two types of analyses, the inclusion of semantic data associated with spatial data and the inclusion of local effects when they are significant so that these are not “washed out...
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Population Algorithm: A New Method of Multi-Dimensional Scaling
This chapter presents a new algorithm called “Population” that is an efficient and high speed method of performing multi dimensional scaling based only on the calculation of a local fitness. Population is not ...
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Supervised Artificial Neural Networks: Backpropagation Neural Networks
A technical description of the backpropagation network is presented along with the feedforward backpropagation artificial neural network.
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Metaclassifiers
This chapter describes methods by which data can be classified. There are many methods which purport to classify data, and each one performs the classification in a different manner and typically with differin...
