What Were We Thinking

This article outlines the context in geography and statistics in the mid 1960s, at the height of geography's so-called “quantitative revolution,” that led us into a long-term collaboration about spatial statistics, which has continued in surges and lulls for some 40 years. We focus upon problems in spatial autocorrelation, including the measurement of autocorrelation, distribution theory, and variable geographical lattices. This narrative may not describe how it was, but it does describe how we remember the events of the time. Que estabamos pensando? El presente articulo intenta esbozar el contexto academico e intelectual en las disciplinas de Geografia y Estadistica a mediados de la decada de los 60, durante el auge de lo que se conoce como la revolucion cuantitativa en Geografia. En este periodo se inicio una prolongada colaboracion entre ambas disciplinas que tiene como eje el estudio de la estadistica espacial y que ha continuado con altos y bajos por alrededor de 40 anos. Nos concentramos en problemas alrededor del concepto de autocorrelacion espacial, tales como la medicion de la autorrelacion, teorias de distribucion, y diferentes latices o configuraciones geograficas. La narracion que presentamos no necesariamente describe los eventos ‘como fueron’ sino mas bien los eventos ‘como los recordamos’ nosotros. 计量地理学的思考 本文概述了20世纪60年代中期地理学与统计学之间的联姻,这一时期也是所谓地理学 “计量革命”的巅峰时刻。它引导我们进入了空间统计学的一个长期协作阶段,并在跌宕起伏中持续了约四十年。我们着重讨论了空间自相关中的空间自相关测度、分布理论以及可变地理格网问题。或许本文未能对上述问题进行充分的阐述,但它能唤醒我们对这段时间里所发生事件的回忆。

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