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Spatial Point Patterns
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Spatial Point Patterns

by Adrian Baddeley, Ege Rubak, Rolf Turner
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
828 pages
33h 11m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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8
Spacing
This ch apter discusses summary statistics based on the spacing between points in a point pattern.
8.1 Introduction
Statistics such as Ripley’s K-function, which m easure the spatial correlation in a point process, are
the most popular tools for assessing depe ndence. However, correlation is only a simple summary of
dependence, and is blind to some aspects of dependence, as we saw in Chapter 7.
Additional information about a point pattern c an often be revealed by measuring spacings or
shortest distances in the pattern, such as the ‘nearest-neighbour’ distance from each data point to
the nearest other data point. In a forestry survey, it
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ISBN: 9781482210217