Duque, Juan CarlosRamos Lobo, RaúlSuriñach Caralt, Jordi2015-04-152015-04-152007-070160-0176https://hdl.handle.net/2445/65071This paper reviews almost four decades of contributions on the subject of supervised regionalization methods. These methods aggregate a set of areas into a predefined number of spatially contiguous regions while optimizing certain aggregation criteria. The authors present a taxonomic scheme that classifies a wide range of regionalization methods into eight groups, based on the strategy applied for satisfying the spatial contiguity constraint. The paper concludes by providing a qualitative comparison of these groups in terms of a set of certain characteristics, and by suggesting future lines of research for extending and improving these methods.26 p.application/pdfeng(c) Sage Publications, 2007RegionalitzacióEconomia regionalCorrelació múltiple (Estadística)RegionalizationRegional economicsMultiple comparisons (Statistics)info:eu-repo/semantics/article5475512015-04-15info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess