• In spatial analysis and geographic information systems, cost distance analysis or cost path analysis is a method for determining one or more optimal routes...
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  • spatial analysis, such as Tobler's first law of geography, network routing, and cost distance analysis. To a large degree, friction of distance is the...
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    General topics Buffer analysis Cartography Complete spatial randomness Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography Cost distance analysis Four traditions of...
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  • Proximity analysis is a class of spatial analysis tools and algorithms that employ geographic distance as a central principle. Distance is fundamental...
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    tools have analyze distance in some form, such as buffers, Voronoi or Thiessen polygons, Cost distance analysis, and network analysis. It is difficult to...
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  • travel cost method of economic valuation, travel cost analysis, or Clawson method is a revealed preference method of economic valuation used in cost–benefit...
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    on translation memory. The Levenshtein distance can also be computed between two longer strings, but the cost to compute it, which is roughly proportional...
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  • minimum cost of building the smaller pile using dirt taken from the larger, where cost is defined as the amount of dirt moved multiplied by the distance over...
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  • edit distances are defined as a parameterizable metric calculated with a specific set of allowed edit operations, and each operation is assigned a cost (possibly...
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  • revenue=marginal cost) will lead to an increase in profit (Theory and Applications of Microeconomics, 2012). Average cost Break even analysis Cost Cost curve Cost-Volume-Profit...
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    transported and the total distance, but also the mass per single transport and the delivery time. Life cycle energy analysis (LCEA) is an approach in which...
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    spatial analysis on raster data sets. The following is an incomplete list of some of the more commonly used tools: GIS tools: Cost-distance analysis, buffer...
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    along the network, with optimal defined as minimizing some form of cost, such as distance, energy expenditure, or time. A common example is finding directions...
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  • markets and in organizational economics, the transaction cost is some function of the distance between the supply and demand. Policing and enforcement...
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  • minimum "cost" of turning one pile into the other, which is assumed to be the amount of earth that needs to be moved times the mean distance it has to...
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    mathematical analysis and geometry. The most familiar example of a metric space is 3-dimensional Euclidean space with its usual notion of distance. Other well-known...
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  • hierarchical clustering (also called hierarchical cluster analysis or HCA) is a method of cluster analysis that seeks to build a hierarchy of clusters. Strategies...
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  • must be sold to break even over the lifetime of the project, such a cost analysis requires assumptions about the value of various non-financial costs...
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    Principal component analysis (PCA) is a linear dimensionality reduction technique with applications in exploratory data analysis, visualization and data...
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    ROC analysis provides tools to select possibly optimal models and to discard suboptimal ones independently from (and prior to specifying) the cost context...
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  • determination is large. The advantages of regression analysis are that it is simple and has a low computational cost. Variance-based methods are a class of probabilistic...
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  • Damerau–Levenshtein distance (named after Frederick J. Damerau and Vladimir I. Levenshtein) is a string metric for measuring the edit distance between two sequences...
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    t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding Factor analysis Discriminant analysis Dimensionality reduction Distance geometry Cayley–Menger determinant Sammon mapping...
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  • A* search algorithm (category Graph distance)
    it aims to find a path to the given goal node having the smallest cost (least distance travelled, shortest time, etc.). It does this by maintaining a tree...
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  • Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner...
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  • no distance, cost, etc. If W is an n × n matrix containing the edge weights of a graph, then Wk (using this distance product) gives the distances between...
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    the distance. His example of a project with a strong time bias was the Alaska pipeline which essentially had to be done on time no matter the cost. After...
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  • estimation, at consequently lower financial and/or human cost. The method of sequential analysis is first attributed to Abraham Wald with Jacob Wolfowitz...
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    others at the Lab who worked with spatial analysis. He conducted a number of experiments with the exponent of distance, deciding on something closer to the...
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    computing the graph edit distance between a pair of graphs typically transform the problem into one of finding the minimum cost edit path between the two...
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