统计地理学与地理学的关系就如同计量经济学与经济学、计量社会学与社会学、计量心理学与心理学,甚至计量法学与法学的关系,确切地说,是研究该领域的一种方法而不是该领域的一个分支。同上述种种方法一样,统计地理学也是新近发展起来的,它表明地理学趋向采取更具有定量性质的研讨方法,这也是自第二次世界大战 The relationship between statistical geography and geography resembles econometrics and economics, econometrics and sociology, econometrics and psychology, and even the relationship between econometrics and jurisprudence, to be precise, a study of this field Method is not a branch of the field. As with the above methods, statistical geography has also been newly developed, showing that geography tends to take a more quantitative approach to research, and since the Second World War