This study’s objective is to further analyze population density changes in Massachusttets between the years 2010-2018.
The first hypothesis of this study is that cities population density is increasing compared to population density in towns and town-cities between 2010-2018. The second hypothesis of this study is that population density in main cities is increasing compared to population density in their neighbour towns and town-cities between 2010-2018.

This study uses lattice data for spatio-temporal analysis.

• The population data was downloaded as a csv file from UMass State Data Center: http://www.donahue.umassp.edu/business-groups/economic-public-policy-research/massachusetts-population-estimates-program.

• The spatial data was downloadad as a shapefile from the Massachusetts Government Data Portal: https://docs.digital.mass.gov/dataset/massgis-data-county-boundaries.

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