Overview
Manfred M. Fischer is Professor Emeritus of Economic Geography at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien), a prolific regional scientist working in spatial analysis, spatial econometrics, discrete-data and neural-network methods for geography, and interregional interaction modelling.
Key Contributions / Features
- Latent class / typological analysis (Ernste-Fischer 1991): expository treatment of latent class analysis as discrete factor analysis, applied to derive a six-class typology of Swiss residents.
- Extensive work in spatial econometrics, geographical information science, and computational (neural-network) methods for spatial interaction and classification.
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