GEOG 4460 Real Estate and the Cities
Lab 1: Monocentric city
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1. Briefly describe the theory of the monocentric
city model.
2. State your hypothesis about distance and population.
3. What is your anticipated results, based on your understanding of the theory?
4. IMAGINE
. Suppose you want to test the theory. What is your ideal data like? What variables would the data contain?
5. Briefly describe the data and the variables (X and Y) that you use in this lab (i.e., max, min, mean, median, sd, n). What is an Enumeration Area (1991 data)? What is a Dissemination Area
(2006 data)? What do you do with the outliers, if any?
6. Plot the two regression lines in two separate diagrams in Excel. Label the two lines as “1991”
and “2006,” respectively Paste the diagrams here.
7. Interpret the intercept, slope and R-squared (make sure you have a correct unit of measurement for interpreting the distance variable). Are the estimates statistically significant? How do you know?
