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The concept of entropy in settlement pattern analysis

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The author is associated with The Academy of Sciences, USSR.

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Medvedkov, Y.V. The concept of entropy in settlement pattern analysis. Papers of the Regional Science Association 18, 165–168 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01940320

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