pycnophylactic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Relating to a kind of areal interpolation that preserves density within defined regions.

Word forms

pycnophylactic

Etymology

From pycno- + phylactic. Coined by Waldo Tobler in his 1979 paper "Smooth Pycnophylactic Interpolation for Geographical Regions", Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 74, number 367, pages 519-536.

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