Abstract
A general method for testing hypotheses about spatial polarization with respect to an exogenously determined growth pole already has been published [3] and later extended to encompass a multiplicity of poles of different orders [4]. In this paper the method is extended to allow for the testing of hierarchical polarized growth. The latter is here defined as the dynamic pattern in a central place setting wherein the level of growth at any point in the region is a function of distances from the nearest centers of each order in the hierarchy. Only points that are low order central places, and only distances to central places of higher order will be considered here, but no conceptual difficulty is involved in extending the method to any points and to central places of any order. The method is outlined and then applied to test hypotheses of hierarchical polarized
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