Abstract
This paper proposes a restricted randomization test for analyzing the relationships between the population distribution in a region and the accessibility to daily facilities. In urban planning, it has been of interest to explore the relationships between population distribution and other distributions. In particular, in recent years, increasing attention is paid to whether a population distribution is affected by the accessibility to daily facilities such as medical and commercial facilities, and also to whether people tend to live close to such facilities and therefore population density is large around the facilities. Taking into account the fact that there is generally positive spatial autocorrelation in population density, this paper proposes a restricted randomization test for addressing these questions, and, using the method, empirically analyzes the distributions of population and supermarkets in Hirosaki-shi, Aomori.
