Citation

Smith NL. Eval. Program Plann. 1979; 2(2): 119-126.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0149-7189(79)90021-1

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Although geographic relationships are often an important aspect of a program or system under evaluation, these relationships have frequently been ignored by evaluators. Standard techniques do exist, however, for the analysis of geographic data. This paper presents three such techniques, Geocode Analysis, Trend Surface Analysis, and Social Area Analysis, and discusses their use in evaluation. With these techniques, evaluators can more adequately deal with the questions of geographic relationships which arise in many studies.