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Spatial Point Pattern Analysis

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The analysis of point patterns appears in many different areas of research. In ecology, for example, the interest may be focused on determining the spatial distribution (and its causes) of a tree species for which the locations have been obtained within a study area. Furthermore, if two or more species have been recorded, it may also be of interest to assess whether these species are equally distributed or competition exists between them. Other factors which force each species to spread in particular areas of the study region may be studied as well. In spatial epidemiology, a common problem is to determine whether the cases of a certain disease are clustered. This can be assessed by comparing the spatial distribution of the cases to the locations of a set of controls taken at random from the population.

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  1. Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway

    Roger S. Bivand

  2. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany

    Edzer Pebesma

  3. Department of Mathematics, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

    Virgilio Gómez-Rubio

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Bivand, R.S., Pebesma, E., Gómez-Rubio, V. (2013). Spatial Point Pattern Analysis. In: Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R. Use R!, vol 10. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7618-4_7

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