"one can induce geographic patterns in the aggregate data that do not
exist in the input data"
Create a diagnostic to check for this (equations 2 and 3 in paper):
"The statistic S_j measures whether the region-level estimates for a given variable are within the margins of error of their constituent tracts. If a region-level estimate is within the margin of error of all its constituent tracts, then there is no information lost through aggregation; information loss increases as the 90 percent confidence intervals of more and more tract-level estimates do not overlap with the region’s estimate."
sastoudt
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5 years ago
From this paper:
"one can induce geographic patterns in the aggregate data that do not exist in the input data"
Create a diagnostic to check for this (equations 2 and 3 in paper):
"The statistic S_j measures whether the region-level estimates for a given variable are within the margins of error of their constituent tracts. If a region-level estimate is within the margin of error of all its constituent tracts, then there is no information lost through aggregation; information loss increases as the 90 percent confidence intervals of more and more tract-level estimates do not overlap with the region’s estimate."