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¹³ This apportioning was accomplished using the city block to ascertain the proportion of the service area data assigned to each census tract. For a complete description, see Joseph Drew, Saadia Greenberg, and Bryan Jones, “The Development of a Data Systems Technology for Assessing the Geographic Distribution of Urban Government Services (paper presented at the annual conference of the Urban and Regional Information Systems Association, Atlanta, Georgia, August 29–Septemberl, 1976).

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¹⁵ We are aware that our strategy may compound the usual problems of spatial serial correlation one can encounter in using data which is geographically based. On these problems, see Lebanon, Alexander and Rosenthal, Howard, “Least Squares Estimation for Models of Cross-Sectional Correlation,” Political Methodology, 2 (May, 1975), 221–244 Google Scholar. The present state of theory does not allow us to specify an adequate model of the disturbances, which is necessary to employ the techniques discussed by Lebanon and Rosenthal.

¹⁶ This is not entirely true of the distance measure. Over time there may be a shift in the meaning of the variable. The core city may be rebuilt for middle-class residents, the poor may be forced outward. But these changes are likely to be glacial compared to the change wrought by neighborhood succession.

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²³ There were so few no action responses for rodent control that a plot could not be constructed for that category, while there were too few container complaints to give stability to the series.

²⁴ Wonnacott and Wonnacott, pp. 411–413.