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See equations (1), (2) and (3), section 2, in W. Isard and T. H. Tung, “Some Concepts for the Analysis of Spatial Organization,”Papers, Regional Science Association, vol. XI, 1963.
It should be pointed out that the strong decentralization attributed to pattern “Z” in Table 1 (almost 100 percent decentralization) need not necessarily be considered as greater decentralization than that associated with patterns “V” and “W” (where the decision-making authority is distributed rather uniformly among nodes at all levels, and not only at nodes of the 4th level.
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The author is associated with the Institute of Statistics, University of Paris, and the Société d'Économie et de Mathématique Appliquées, Paris, France.
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Rosenfeld, F. Comments on Isard and Tung. Papers of the Regional Science Association 12, 27–28 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01941237
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