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Multidimensional Analysis in the Study of Environmental Behavior and Environmental Design

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Human Behavior and Environment

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The literature on environmental knowing is largely problem-oriented (though see Moore and Golledge, 1976, for statements of current theory), and finding solutions to these problems has occupied the greatest part of the total research effort in this area. So intent has this search been on collecting and representing cognitive information that the equally important task of determining how to analyze results has been relegated to the background. An inevitable result of this neglect can be the selection of inappropriate analytical methods for the level of data collected. To help overcome this problem, I present in this paper a variety of multivariate and multidimensional analytical techniques. The selection is not exhaustive; rather, it attempts to illustrate some of the relationships between data type or representational form and a subset of appropriate analytical methods.

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Golledge, R.G. (1977). Multidimensional Analysis in the Study of Environmental Behavior and Environmental Design. In: Altman, I., Wohlwill, J.F. (eds) Human Behavior and Environment. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0808-9_1

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