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| What are the two reasons we analyze time? |
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1. To understand what has already happened
2. To predict what will happen in the future |
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| What are the two elements that are typically combined to identify a discrete temporal location? |
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| What does A.M. stand for? |
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| What does P.M. stand for? |
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When electronically stored,Date and Time data are often merged into a single "date/time" field.
What are the 3 formats used for storing this data? |
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1. Text field
2. Numeric field
3. A Specialized date/time field type |
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| Define Temporal Distribution |
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| How events are situated throughout the study area in relation to one another. |
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| What are the 3 classes of distribution? |
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1. Clustered events tend to occur in close proximity to one another.
2. Uniform events tend to occur far apart from one another.
3. Random events are neither clustered nor uniform.
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| The Nearest Neighbor Test, Ripley's K, and Moran's I are all tests to measure what? |
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Tempo is a measurement of tendency
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| What are the 3 types of tempo? |
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1. Acceleration occurs when the interval between events decreases as the number of events decreases
2. Decceleration occurs when the interval between events increases as the number of events increases
3. Stabilization occurs when the interval between events neither increases nor decreases as the number of events increases |
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| The Least Squares Best Fit method can be applied to a tempogram to calculate what? |
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Tempo suffers limitations, one of which being that it does not account for terminal velocity.
What is terminal velocity? |
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| The fastest rate at which events can occur. |
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| In order to make sense of an otherwise chaotic tempo or distribution, we look for ________________. |
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Correlations
We look for correlations between the interval and other another variable, such as value of goods obtained. |
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| True or False? There's no such thing as "random" when it comes to human bahavior. |
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| Define the type of temporal falacy known as a spurious relationship. |
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| A spurious relationship is when two factors have no causal connection, but appear to have one due to a third unknown variable. |
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| What are the 3 questions an analyst should ask when confronted by an apparent temporal correlation? |
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1. Is the correlation logical?
2. Is the correlation causal?
3. What have you forgotten? |
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